Synonyms for likeness
ˈlaɪk nɪslike·ness

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   similarity

2. likenessnoun

   To depict.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

3. likenessnoun

   Appearance or form; guise.

   An enemy in the likeness of a friend.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

4. likenessnoun

   That which closely resembles; a portrait.

   How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

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1. likeness

   Analogy is specifically a resemblance of relations; a resemblance that may be reasoned from, so that from the likeness in certain respects we may infer that other and perhaps deeper relations exist. Affinity is a mutual attraction with or without seeming likeness; as, the affinity of iron for oxygen. Coincidence is complete agreement in some one or more respects; there may be a coincidence in time of most dissimilar events. Parity of reasoning is said of an argument equally conclusive on subjects not strictly analogous. Similitude is a rhetorical comparison of one thing to another with which it has some points in common. Resemblance and similarity are external or superficial, and may involve no deeper relation; as, the resemblance of a cloud to a distant mountain. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   affinity, analogy, coincidence, comparison, parity, proportion, relation, resemblance, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude

   Antonyms:
   disagreement, disproportion, dissimilarity, incongruity, unlikeness

   Preposition:
   The analogy between (or of) nature and revelation; the analogy of sound to light; a family has some analogy with (or to) a state.

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1. likeness

   Synonyms:
   similarity, resemblance, correspondence, similitude, parity, copy, imitation, portrait, representation, image, effigy, carte de visite, picture

   Antonyms:
   dissimilarity, dissimilitude, disparity, inequality, unlikeness, original

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1. likeness, alikeness, similitudenoun

   similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

   "man created God in his own likeness"

   Synonyms:
   alikeness, similitude, counterpart, twin, semblance

   Antonyms:
   unlikeness, dissimilitude

2. likeness, semblancenoun

   picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

   Synonyms:
   gloss, semblance, alikeness, similitude, illusion, colour, color

   Antonyms:
   dissimilitude, unlikeness

Matched Categories

1. • Picture
   • Similarity

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   resemblance, similarity, similitude, semblance, form, external appearance

2. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   copy, fac-simile, counterpart, image, representation, portrait, effigy, statue

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise, analogy, portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile

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1. List of paraphrases for "likeness":

   resemblance, similarity, portrait

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How to use likeness in a sentence?

1. Virginia Woolf:

   Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

3. Robert Boyce:

   If you look at the photo ... it's a reasonable likeness to Mr. Blake, they look like twins.

4. Sam Gregory:

   It touches also on our fears of death and ideas about the way people could take control of our digital likeness and make us say or do things without any way to stop it.

5. Benjamin Haydon:

   The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.