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likeness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of likeness

1 a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing

the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness

Synonyms of likeness

icon (also ikon), illustration, image, picture

Words Related to likeness

delineation, depiction, representation, resemblance, view

daub, drawing, finger painting

etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor

caricature, cartoon, doodle

collage, montage, photograph

hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, ideogram, ideograph

2 something or someone that strongly resembles another

why, you're the very likeness of your mother!

Synonyms of likeness

alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, image, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin

Words Related to likeness

effigy, portrait, portrayal

companion, fellow, mate

equal, equivalent

analogue (or analog), parallel

Near Antonyms of likeness

antithesis, converse, opposite, reverse

3 the quality or state of having many qualities in common

the forgery was difficult to detect due to the pinpoint likeness it bore to the original

Synonyms of likeness

alikeness, community, comparability, correspondence, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude

Words Related to likeness

affinity, analogousness

equation, equivalence, equivalency, par, parity

identicalness, identity, sameness

correlation, relationship

exchangeability, interchangeability

accordance, agreement, compatibility, conformity, congruity

Near Antonyms of likeness

conflict, polarity

incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

anomalousness, dichotomy

disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence

Antonyms of likeness

difference, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinctiveness, distinctness, unlikeness

Synonym Discussion of likeness

likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude, analogy mean agreement or correspondence in details. likeness implies a closer correspondence than similarity which often implies that things are merely somewhat alike.

- a remarkable likeness to his late father
- some similarity between the two cases

resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities.

- statements that bear little resemblance to the truth

similitude applies chiefly to correspondence between abstractions.

- two schools of social thought showing points of similitude

analogy implies likeness or parallelism in relations rather than in appearance or qualities.

- pointed out analogies to past wars

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