Definitions

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  • noun uncountable The state or quality of being alike.
  • noun countable The result or product of being alike.

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  • noun similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

Etymologies

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alike +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Our alikeness is our kindness, and our ability to find common ground our connection.

    Sarah O'Leary: Kind-ness Sarah O'Leary 2011

  • Our alikeness is our kindness, and our ability to find common ground our connection.

    Sarah O'Leary: Kind-ness Sarah O'Leary 2011

  • Our alikeness is our kindness, and our ability to find common ground our connection.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sarah O'Leary 2011

  • Curiously, with options meliorate duty ornamental alikeness serenity and calm.

    Ornament Serenity | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • The only bag days impressionnante © cor is revealed as a possible alikeness that we are models that are traditional, equal, or a combination of both.

    Ornament Serenity | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Apparently, being reared by the same parents did nothing to increase twins 'alikeness.

    The Parent Trap 2008

  • She had always assumed that her husband and son were close, perhaps even united against her in their blasted alikeness, but now she saw that there were hidden, even dangerous, dynamics at work in their relationship.

    THE VOW Linda Lael Miller 1998

  • Their alikeness went deeper than just their heavy tans, their silent walk, their watchfulness and complete awareness of their surroundings.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

  • He's often said that the affinity made-for-each-other theory must be pure nonsense; that you meet during your little life hundreds of people who all have more or less of an affinity for you -- some more, some less -- and that it's practically your duty to fuse that alikeness wherever you meet it.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

  • There never has been, there never can be any such adjustment of the forces of nature on this planet; because no two souls are alike and there can only be equality in alikeness.

    Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

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