Likeness
['laɪknɪs] or ['laɪknəs]
Definition
(noun.) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing.
(noun.) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; 'man created God in his own likeness'.
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Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.
(n.) Appearance or form; guise.
(n.) That which closely resembles; a portrait.
(n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Resemblance, similarity, similitude, semblance, form, external appearance.[2]. Copy, fac-simile, counterpart, image, representation, portrait, effigy, statue.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Similarity, resemblance, correspondence, similitude, parity, copy, imitation,portrait, representation, image, effigy, carte_de_visite, picture
ANT:Dissimilarity, dissimilitude, disparity, inequality, unlikeness, original
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Examples
- At first sight the two sons of Ariston may seem to wear a family likeness, like the two friends Simmias and Cebes in the Phaedo. Plato. The Republic.
- Well, the position may be a matter of opinion; but what do you think of the likeness? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes, said his brother hesitatingly, there is a likeness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Thornton's face assumed a likeness to his mother's worst expression, which immediately repelled the watching Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I never saw such a likeness in my life. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mamma often declares the likeness is quite ridiculous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But the likeness ends outside. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness almost before it was possible. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was at Boulogne I saw your father--a most uncommon likeness you are of him, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This social fact is then taken for a psychological force, which produced the likeness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- My Lord being prayed to bid my learned friend lay aside his wig, and giving no very gracious consent, the likeness became much more remarkable. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I wished to see Jane Eyre, and I fancy a likeness where none exists: besides, in eight years she must be so changed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mentally, the likeness between them, as Newland was aware, was less complete than their identical mannerisms often made it appear. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Quietly, quietly, the face subsided into a far younger likeness of her own than she had ever seen under the grey hair, and sank to rest. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The locket had belonged to Lord Greystoke, and the likenesses were of himself and Lady Alice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- So she rubbed them out, and drew little nosegays and likenesses of me and Jip, all over the tablets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This ought to be my nephew, if likenesses run in families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Pray, said I, as the two odious casts with the twitchy leer upon them caught my sight again, whose likenesses are those? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- That these likenesses had grown more numerous, as he, coming over the sea, had drawn nearer. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We're capital hands at likenesses here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yet more faithful likenesses are not yet produced than by this now old process. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My Lady, slowly using her little hand-screen as a fan, asks him again what he supposes that his taste for likenesses has to do with her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The man that invented the machine for taking likenesses might have known that would never succeed; it's a deal too honest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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