Definition of Dissimilitude

1. Noun. Dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness.

Exact synonyms: Unlikeness
Generic synonyms: Dissimilarity, Unsimilarity
Antonyms: Similitude, Likeness
Derivative terms: Unlike

Definition of Dissimilitude

1. n. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Definition of Dissimilitude

1. Noun. The quality of being diverse or different; difference or variety. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dissimilitude

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimilitude

dissilience
dissilition
dissimilar
dissimilarities
dissimilarity
dissimilarly
dissimilarness
dissimilars
dissimilate
dissimilated
dissimilates
dissimilating
dissimilation
dissimilations
dissimilatory
dissimilitude (current term)
dissimilitudes
dissimulate
dissimulated
dissimulates
dissimulating
dissimulatingly
dissimulation
dissimulations
dissimulative
dissimulator
dissimulators
dissimulour
dissing
dissipable

Literary usage of Dissimilitude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"RESEMBLANCE AND dissimilitude. 248. HAVING discussed those qualities and circumstances of single objects that seem peculiarly connected with criticism, ..."

2. Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign by Henry Home Kames, Mills, Abraham (1847)
"RESEMBLANCE AND dissimilitude. The pleasure of discovering dissimilitude where resemblance prevails, and resem- blance where dissimilitude prevails—A ..."

3. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"... Visitors—Boston—General Resemblance to England—Points of dissimilitude—Characteristics of American Cities—Style of Living—Cookery—Hotels—The " Boarding ..."

4. An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames, John Frost (1831)
"Resemblance and dissimilitude. NATURE has given us a vigorous ... That resemblance and dissimilitude have an enlivening effect upon objects of sight, ..."

5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom (1888)
"SIMILITUDE and dissimilitude, how so related as to include falsity, 550. 551, 552. 553. 556. 557- Stoics, 540. TRUTH, discussion and illustration of; ..."

6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Nothing can more strikingly illustrate the dissimilitude of the French and English constitutions of government than the sentence above cited from the code ..."

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