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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

portrait

daub, drawing, finger painting

etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor

caricature, cartoon, doodle

collage, montage, photograph

hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, ideogram, ideograph

pictograph

diagram

2 something or someone that strongly resembles another

  • why, youʼre 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

Chinese copy

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

semblance

affinity, analogousness

equation, equivalence, equivalency, par, parity

identicalness, identity, sameness

correlation, relationship

exchangeability, interchangeability

accordance, agreement, compatibility, conformity, congruity
Near Antonyms of likeness

inequality

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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