verisimilitude vs semblance

verisimilitude and semblance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
verisimilitude	Yes	No	No	No
semblance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, semblance is a hypernym of verisimilitude; that is, semblance is a word with a broader meaning than verisimilitude:

verisimilitude: the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
semblance: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

Other hypernyms of verisimilitude include color, colour, gloss.

verisimilitude (noun)	semblance (noun)
the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true	picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
	an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
	an erroneous mental representation