LIKENESS

likeness, semblance

(noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

likeness, alikeness, similitude

(noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; “man created God in his own likeness”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

likeness (plural likenesses)

The state or quality of being like or alike

Synonyms: similitude, resemblance, similarity

Appearance or form; guise.

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

Synonyms

• similarity

Verb

likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)

(archaic, transitive) To depict.

Anagrams

• eelskins

Source: Wiktionary


Like"ness, n. Etym: [AS. gelicnes.]

1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

2. Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. L'Estrange.

3. That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.

4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.] He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).

Syn.

– Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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