similitude
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9.8
- noun
- /sɪˈmɪlɪˌtud/
- Literature
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- As Plato says, likenesses or similitudes are reflections in water of these things.
As Plato says, likenesses or similitudes are reflections in water of these things.
- As Plato says, likenesses or similitudes are reflections in water of these things.
Examples
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In other words, the father and the mother are affirming their substantial similitude with the child.
Academic text (2005) -
This similitude of culturally disparate roles is rooted, we believe, in the power generally derived from the foreign and apart.
Academic text (1996) -
They all look the same in their similitude and language.
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Budgets are frequently based on this sameness, a similitude.
Academic text (1996) -
Hobbes writes in Leviathan that those who observe similitudes rarely observed by others have a good fancy.
Fiction book (1991) -
"She relies upon the singularity of the similitudes she observes, upon her "good fancy," for her poetic genius.
Fiction book (1991) -
Collected into a series, as they typically were, the Screen Tests (like the atomic tests) were experiments in producing likeness across the subjects, capturing the similitudes in Warhol's social collectivities.
Academic text (2016) -
This paper challenges the perceived "Americanness" of legal realism based on the movement's similitude to early twentieth-century German reform jurisprudence and its attendant calls for free law, free judicial law-finding, and free legal science.
Academic text (2016) -
And things irrevocably incline toward similitude because they have some rational or active virtue that directs and counsels them, as fire experiences the urge toward fire, water toward water, which accounts for the passionate flight of the soul and the body's deep unrest.
Fiction book (1991) -
The artist captured the similitude between the two landscapes beautifully.
Synonyms
157
2.7
A likeness between things that makes them seem related
105
3.0
A likeness in how two people or things look
63
4.4
A similarity between two things or events
36
3.5
How much two people or things look the same
1
4.8
Being similar in form or appearance to the usual design
1
6.7
A similarity in how two or more things are arranged and how they develop
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
similitude = similar (transparent) = simil + itude
Formed by a recognizable adjective 'similar' + the nominalizing suffix '-itude' meaning 'state or quality of being similar', so the sense is directly derivable by learners.
Etymology
Similitude comes from the Latin root similis, which means 'like'. It shares the same root as similar, so similitude is simply the 'state of being like' something, or a resemblance.