[syn: likeness, semblance]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Likeness \Like"ness\, n. [AS. gel[imac]cnes.]
1. The state or quality of being like; similitude;
resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to
the other is remarkable.
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2. Appearance or form; guise.
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An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange.
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3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
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[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still
remain enable us to imagine. --Macaulay.
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4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]
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He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this
likeness, Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke
iv. 23).
Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation;
portrait; effigy.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
likeness
n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between
persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"
[syn: likeness, alikeness, similitude] [ant:
dissimilitude, unlikeness]
2: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
[syn: likeness, semblance]