similarity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

resemblance agreement parallel correspondence correlation analogy equivalence affinity kinship likeness conformity parallelism uniformity similitude sameness
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Antonyms

dissimilarity tiff transfiguration change division difference
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Hypernyms

sameness Gestalt law of organization Gestalt principle of organization

Hyponyms

approach homology parallel sort correspondence approximation

Phrases with the word

marital similarity inclination marital similarity propensity marital similarity tendency marital similarity association by similarity lexical similarity analysis

Derivatives

-ties

Examples

The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... Alfred Korzybski

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. Bertrand Russell

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either. George Bernard Shaw

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. Paul Dirac

A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone. Max Ernst

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep

Close letter words and terms

similaris case similarish similariton similarity of power similarization similarize