Synonyms for likeness
ˈlaɪk nɪslike·ness

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   similarity

2. likenessnoun

   To depict.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

3. likenessnoun

   Appearance or form; guise.

   An enemy in the likeness of a friend.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

4. likenessnoun

   That which closely resembles; a portrait.

   How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

   Synonyms:
   similarity

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1. likeness

   Analogy is specifically a resemblance of relations; a resemblance that may be reasoned from, so that from the likeness in certain respects we may infer that other and perhaps deeper relations exist. Affinity is a mutual attraction with or without seeming likeness; as, the affinity of iron for oxygen. Coincidence is complete agreement in some one or more respects; there may be a coincidence in time of most dissimilar events. Parity of reasoning is said of an argument equally conclusive on subjects not strictly analogous. Similitude is a rhetorical comparison of one thing to another with which it has some points in common. Resemblance and similarity are external or superficial, and may involve no deeper relation; as, the resemblance of a cloud to a distant mountain. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   affinity, analogy, coincidence, comparison, parity, proportion, relation, resemblance, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude

   Antonyms:
   disagreement, disproportion, dissimilarity, incongruity, unlikeness

   Preposition:
   The analogy between (or of) nature and revelation; the analogy of sound to light; a family has some analogy with (or to) a state.

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1. likeness

   Synonyms:
   similarity, resemblance, correspondence, similitude, parity, copy, imitation, portrait, representation, image, effigy, carte de visite, picture

   Antonyms:
   dissimilarity, dissimilitude, disparity, inequality, unlikeness, original

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1. likeness, alikeness, similitudenoun

   similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

   "man created God in his own likeness"

   Synonyms:
   alikeness, similitude, counterpart, twin, semblance

   Antonyms:
   unlikeness, dissimilitude

2. likeness, semblancenoun

   picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

   Synonyms:
   gloss, semblance, alikeness, similitude, illusion, colour, color

   Antonyms:
   dissimilitude, unlikeness

Matched Categories

1. • Picture
   • Similarity

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   resemblance, similarity, similitude, semblance, form, external appearance

2. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   copy, fac-simile, counterpart, image, representation, portrait, effigy, statue

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1. likenessnoun

   Synonyms:
   similitude, resemblance, similarity, appearance, guise, analogy, portrait, effigy, counterpart, image, copy, facsimile

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1. List of paraphrases for "likeness":

   resemblance, similarity, portrait

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1. Thomas Merton:

   The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

2. Nino Vitale:

   Were created in the image and likeness of God. When we think of image, do we think of a chest or our legs or our arms ? We think of their face. I dont want to cover peoples faces.

3. Benjamin Haydon:

   The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom

5. Plato:

   The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.