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ALIKENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alikeness mean? 

ALIKENESS (noun)
  The noun ALIKENESS has 1 sense:

1. similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or thingsplay

  Familiarity information: ALIKENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALIKENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

alikeness; likeness; similitude

Context example:

man created God in his own likeness

Hypernyms ("alikeness" is a kind of...):

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Attribute:

alike; like; similar (having the same or similar characteristics)

dissimilar; unalike (not alike or similar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alikeness"):

comparability; compare; comparison; equivalence (qualities that are comparable)

mirror image; reflection; reflexion (a likeness in which left and right are reversed)

naturalness (the likeness of a representation to the thing represented)

resemblance (similarity in appearance or external or superficial details)

spitting image (a perfect likeness or counterpart)

Derivation:

alike (having the same or similar characteristics)


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