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UNLIKENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unlikeness mean?
• UNLIKENESS (noun)
The noun UNLIKENESS has 1 sense:
1. dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
Familiarity information: UNLIKENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
dissimilitude; unlikeness
Hypernyms ("unlikeness" is a kind of...):
dissimilarity; unsimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)
Antonym:
likeness (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)
Derivation:
unlike (marked by dissimilarity)
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