An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
RESEMBLANCE
resemblance
(noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)
The quality or state of resembling
Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
Synonyms
• likeness
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. Etym: [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.]
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.
2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.
3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn.
– Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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