DISSIMILARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissimilarity mean? 

• DISSIMILARITY (noun)
  The noun DISSIMILARITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being dissimilar

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSIMILARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being dissimilar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dissimilarity; unsimilarity

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

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

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

disparateness; distinctiveness (utter dissimilarity)

heterology ((biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts)

dissimilitude; unlikeness (dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness)

nonuniformity (the quality of being diverse and interesting)

Antonym:

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Derivation:

dissimilar (not alike or similar)

dissimilar (not similar)

 Context examples 

The dissimilarity is not so strong.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Having once set out, and felt that he had done so on this road to happiness, there was nothing on the side of prudence to stop him or make his progress slow; no doubts of her deserving, no fears of opposition of taste, no need of drawing new hopes of happiness from dissimilarity of temper.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Having formed her mind and gained her affections, he had a good chance of her thinking like him; though at this period, and on this subject, there began now to be some danger of dissimilarity, for he was in a line of admiration of Miss Crawford, which might lead him where Fanny could not follow.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)