SIMILITUDE

counterpart, similitude, twin

(noun) a duplicate copy

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

similitude (countable and uncountable, plural similitudes)

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.

(countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.

(countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.

A parable or allegory.

Source: Wiktionary


Si*mil"i*tude, n. Etym: [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See Similar.]

1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine. Pope.

2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. Dryden.

3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. Man should wed his similitude. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SUBDUCTION

(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate


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