similitude

Noun
Synonyms: likenessalikenesscounterparttwin

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things“man created God in his own likeness”Synonyms: likenessalikeness
  2. a duplicate copySynonyms: counterparttwin
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Similitude \Si*mil"i*tude\, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See Similar.]

1.The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile. [1913 Webster]

Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. [1913 Webster]

Man should wed his similitude.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
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