Synonyms of likenesses

likenesses

noun

plural of likeness

1

as in pictures

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

the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pictures
• portraits
• illustrations
• depictions
• images
• representations
• resemblances
• drawings
• photographs
• caricatures
• icons
• views
• sketches
• watercolors
• etchings
• silhouettes
• delineations
• collages
• cartoons
• diagrams
• hieroglyphics
• hieroglyphs
• daubs
• doodles
• montages
• pictographs
• ideograms
• finger paintings
• ideographs

2

as in images

something or someone that strongly resembles another

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pictures
• images
• replicas
• twins
• portraits
• clones
• duplicates
• counterparts
• facsimiles
• equivalents
• duplications
• portrayals
• doubles
• doppelgängers
• mirror images
• look-alikes
• ringers
• carbon copies
• alter egos
• carbons
• effigies
• spits
• matches
• spitting images
• fetches
• companions
• analogues
• parallels
• equals
• fellows
• mates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opposites
• antitheses
• reverses
• converses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of likenesses

After a tour past mannequins in their likenesses, Manolo Blahnik slippers and mood boards, the party moved to the Versailles Orangerie, where Cartier grooms lined the alleys leading to the grandiose gallery. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

Vertical actors including Ashley BeLoat and Evan Gambardella spoke to Business Insider in July about platforms allegedly using performances and likenesses from live-action microdramas in fully AI projects without human performers’ permission. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026

Actors in Hollywood have raised similar concerns about unauthorized use of their likenesses by AI models. — Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

For the most part, those criticisms haven’t been aimed at the film’s cast — who gave Higgsfield the right to use their likenesses, but were otherwise not as directly involved in the project’s production as traditional actors would be. — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 21 Aug. 2026

The move reflects how Hollywood has navigated the murkier elements of generative AI, a technology many in the industry are fascinated by yet worry undercuts their work through the unauthorized scraping of likenesses to train their models. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

In 2009, former UCLA star Ed O’Bannon successfully sued over the use of his and other players’ likenesses in video games that featured classic college teams. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Friday’s announcement comes after CAA called for Meta to implement guardrails for Muse, despite the agency rolling out its own AI Vault program to archive its members’ likenesses forever. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 July 2026

The case was settled and ultimately helped establish new protections for actors regarding the unauthorized commercial use of their likenesses. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026