RESEMBLANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resemblance mean? 

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

1. similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESEMBLANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

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

mutual resemblance (symmetrical resemblance)

affinity (inherent resemblance between persons or things)

Derivation:

resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)

 Context examples 

I exclude extremes, of course; and a very close resemblance in all those points would be the likeliest way to produce an extreme.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There's a strong resemblance between you and your poor father, sir.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Taken in that light certainly, their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“This is no very striking resemblance of your own character, I am sure,” said he.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Yes, said he, looking not exactly forward; but there, I think, ends the resemblance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Our situations have borne little resemblance.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Called the Serpens Cloud Core, this star-forming region is located about 750 light-years away in Serpens, or the "Serpent," a constellation named after its resemblance to a snake in visible light.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)

You will remember, Watson, he remarked one afternoon, that there is a single common point of resemblance in the varying reports which have reached us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Superficial resemblance of P. brasiliensis to Blastomyces brasiliensis (BLASTOMYCES) may cause misdiagnosis.

(Paracoccidioidomycosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He changed his appearance as far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could not fail to observe, would be put down to a family resemblance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)