Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state, quality, or fact of being like; resemblance.
- n. An imitative appearance; a semblance.
- n. A pictorial, graphic, or sculptured representation of something; an image.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being like or alike; the relation of two or more objects which agree in respect to some quality; similitude; similarity; resemblance.
- n. That which resembles something else; an express representation or copy; an effigy; especially, a portrait of a person, or a representation of an animal or other object.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
- n. Appearance or form; guise.
- n. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- v. archaic, transitive To depict.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
- n. Appearance or form; guise.
- n. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- n. obsolete A comparison; parable; proverb.
WordNet 3.0
- n. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
- n. similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things
Etymologies
- like + -ness; from Old English licnes, a shortening of gelicness. The verb is derived from the noun. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It sets up a connection between two centres -- man and God -- which can only be connected because of a fundamental likeness subsisting between them; but the _likeness_ is not”
“As though he had said, "All these other creatures are your property, designed for your use -- they have the likeness of earth, they perish with the using, and their spirits go downward; but this other being, MAN, has my own _likeness_; IN THE IMAGE OF GOD made I man; an intelligent, moral, immortal agent, invited to all that I can give and he can be.”
“We shall find that they originate by the perfecting of this same idea of likeness; that they have their rise in that conception of _complete likeness_ which, as we have seen, necessarily results from the continued process of classification.”
“So I determined I would not send it, indeed, I promised them I would not send it; but, notwithstanding, as I know Miss Russell will be good enough to comply with my conditions, I will send it directly; for, as it is a good likeness, every one except the family knowing it instantly, and Mr. Allston saying that it is a _very strong likeness_, it will on that account be a gratification to her.”
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.
“Is that a photo of Lily because the likeness is astonishing!”
“The next thing was a piece of paper; he dived his hand down into another pocket, producing a rusty knife, pieces of string, a chestnut or two, and, finally, a crumpled piece of paper on which Bob Turner had scrawled what he called a likeness of Mr. Burrows, and given to Tip for a keepsake.”
“Maybe that†™ s why it kind of bothers me that Reeve†™ s likeness is being used here.”
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“She has also become a popular Halloween costume for people, in which her likeness is replicated on Facebook fan pages and on Flickr.”
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“Now that might be because honestly how many creative ways can an aircraft carrier in space be filmed, but, the likeness is uncanny.”
“The visual likeness is that of a teddy bear nursing a grudge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘likeness’.
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Guide to the Perplexed
Lexicon of terms set forth in Maimonides 'Guide to the Perplexed'. A fascinating exercise in theosophy and translation if one substitutes these definitions for a "revised" reading of the Old Testa...
eye, apprehend, associations, air, ruah : or ruhoth,..., affection, attribute, approach, accidents, ascending, articulated, back and 119 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Copies of copies
replica, ersatz, synthetic, artificial, clone, simulacrum, reproduction, facsimile, carbon copy, twin, enantiomorph, antimer and 37 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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words
craven, perennial, incumbent, infraction, truancy, foreboding, missgiving, understudy, upkeep, withdrawal, retreat, underscore and 95 more...
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Favourites
wither, pallid, evanescent, enamour, discovery, smoky, tempest, pantheon, fatuous, revenant, aquatic, escapist and 92 more...
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Bear With Me
Phrases including things that bear or are borne (with the meaning "to support," "to hold," or "to carry").
witness, grudge, burden, repeating, weight, strain, child, fruit, examination, blame, suffering, cross and 50 more...
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I'm scared one day I'll say it, "I do...
heartbeats, tessellate, reinvent, collarbones, entangle, frightened, wrists, furniture, variations, unnoticed, astride, motion and 80 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for likeness.
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