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alikeness
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alikeness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, analogy, comparableness, comparison, correspondence, equivalence, resemblance, sameness, similarity, similitude, uniformity, uniformness |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude |
| Notes: | analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | equivalence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sameness, similarity |
| Synonyms: | adequation, agreement, alikeness, compatibility, conformity, correlation, correspondence, equality, evenness, exchangeability, identity, interchangeability, interchangeableness, likeness, match, par, parallel, parity, synonym, synonymy |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, inequality, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | likeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison, conformity, copy, counterpart, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identicalness, identity, image, knock-off, lookalike, model, parallelism, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resemblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence, similarity |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, affinity, alikeness, analogy, birds of a feather, carbon copy, carbon, clone, closeness, coincidence, comparability, comparison, conformity, counterpart, double, facsimile, image, kinship, like of, likeness, look-alike, parallel, parity, peas in a pod, ringer, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, spitting image, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | contrast, difference, dissimililarity, diversity |
| Main Entry: | sameness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, similarity |
| Synonyms: | adequation, alikeness, analogy, equality, equivalency, identicalness, identity, indistinguishability, monotony, no difference, oneness, par, parity, predictability, repetition, resemblance, selfsameness, standardization, tedium, uniformity, unison, unity, unvariedness |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, variableness, variety |
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
| Synonyms: | affinity, air, alikeness, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | similarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, correspondence |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogy, approximation, association, closeness, coincidence, collation, community, comparability, comparison, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congruence, congruity, connection, correlation, dead ringer, harmony, homogeneity, identity, interrelation, kinship, likes of, look-alike, parallel, parallelism, parity, peas in a pod, proportion, reciprocity, relation, relationship, resemblance, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, synonymity, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, opposition, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | approximation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness |
| Synonyms: | alikeness, likeness, nearness, resemblance, similarity |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity |
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