Definition of likeness

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Likeness (n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.

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Representance :: Representance (n.) Representation; likeness.
Similative :: Similative (a.) Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.
Wraith :: Wraith (n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image..
Likelihood :: Likelihood (n.) Likeness; resemblance.
Nonresemblance :: Nonresemblance (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Semble :: Semble (a.) To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
Facsimile :: Facsimile (n.) A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness..
Take :: Take (v. t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person..
Retrait :: Retrait (n.) A portrait; a likeness.
Monerula :: Monerula (n.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..
Portray :: Portray (v. t.) To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback..
Analogy :: Analogy (n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden..
Semblable :: Semblable (n.) Likeness; representation.
Para- :: Para- () A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively..
Difference :: Difference (n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?.
Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
Mark :: Mark (n.) Image; likeness; hence, those formed in one's image; children; descendants..
Dissimilitude :: Dissimilitude (n.) Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Family :: Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order..
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