dissimilitude

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It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

In another way by dissimilitude; as power is appropriated to the Father, as Augustine says, because fathers by reason of old age are sometimes feeble; lest anything of the kind be imagined of God.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

This dissimilitude," says Mr. Thornton, "which pervades the whole of their habits, is so general, even in things of apparent insignificance, as almost to indicate design rather than accident.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

X. There are also several external causes of cold; the first of which is dissimilitude of minds and manners.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel