likeness
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈlaɪknəs/
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semejanza
- Many people commented on the striking likeness between the twins.
- image and likeness
- likeness of God
- likeness and unlikeness
God made you in his likeness, He big, He vast.
- God made you in his likeness, He big, He vast.
- AI has always been this idea of building machines in your likeness.
- Not only is the likeness so uncanny, she has all of Princess Anne's feistiness.
- That, after all, why wouldn't we be doing that, since it says in Genesis that God created us in his image and likeness.
- You are a spiritual being, seeing you in a perfect image and likeness of love, of pure light, of pure energy.
- Friendship produces this likeness in all these different things.
- And then like obviously there's a mutual likeness that's beyond just friends.
- So according to some kind of likeness, oporibus rattionis, right?
- That's how I mean, that's how I see value and likeness.
- And the direction is like human likeness.
- That's where your focus needs to be that you let us make man in our image after our likeness.
Examples
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Despite the differences, there is a strong likeness between the two styles of art.
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But I had been sketching, trying to capture my father's likeness: asleep, awake, comfortable, in discomfort.
Fiction book (1996) -
Artists do often have rights to their likeness and sometimes even the rights to how they sound.
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So we actually had to do justice to their likeness so that their families could feel their soldiers.
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I thought it was a perfect likeness.
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The throne not only bears her likeness, but also links it directly to the office she holds.
Academic text (1990) -
Aunt Sylvie pointed out the likeness; she even mentioned the church where he was carved.
Fiction book (1999) -
Not only is the likeness so uncanny, she has all of Princess Anne's feistiness.
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The artist captured her likeness beautifully in the painting.
Synonyms
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2.7
A likeness between things that makes them seem related
105
3.0
A likeness in how two people or things look
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4.8
Being similar in form or appearance to the usual design
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9.8
A likeness in how two things look or behave
The fact of being similar in how something looks or behaves
People or things that seem very similar to each other
Antonyms
How Similar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Likeness comes from the simple word like and the ending -ness, meaning the 'state of being like' something. So, it refers to how similar two things are in appearance, character, or nature.