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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness |
| Synonyms: | alikeness, likeness, nearness, resemblance, similarity |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touching |
| Synonyms: | approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contingence, hit, impingement, junction, juxtaposition, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relation, strike, taction, touch, union |
| Antonyms: | avoidance |
| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, believed abstraction, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | match |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counterpart, equal |
| Synonyms: | adversary, analogue, antagonist, approximation, companion, competitor, complement, copy, correlate, countertype, dead ringer, double, duplicate, equivalent, like, lookalike, mate, opponent, parallel, peer, replica, ringer, rival, spitting image, twin |
| Antonyms: | clash, difference, imbalance |
| Main Entry: | parity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equality, balance |
| Synonyms: | adequation, affinity, agreement, analogy, approximation, closeness, coequality, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, equal terms, equivalence, equivalency, likeness, nearness, par, parallelism, paraphernalia, resemblance, sameness, similarity, similitude, uniformity, unity |
| Antonyms: | dissimilitude, imbalance, inequality |
| 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: | ballpark figure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | educated guess |
| Synonyms: | approximation, estimate, estimation, guess, guesstimate, informed guess, judgment, projection, rough figure, rough guess, rough measure |
| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness in time or space |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, approach, approximation, closeness, contiguity, immediacy, imminence, likeness, loom, neighborhood, propinquity, proximity, resemblance, similarity, vicinage, vicinity |
| Antonyms: | difference, distance, remoteness |
| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approximateness |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, approximation, closeness, contiguity, familiarity, imminence, intimacy, propinquity, proximity |
| Antonyms: | distance |
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