Definition of Likeness

1. Noun. Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things. "Man created God in his own likeness"


2. Noun. Picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing.
Exact synonyms: Semblance
Specialized synonyms: Identikit, Identikit Picture, Portrait, Portrayal
Generic synonyms: Icon, Ikon, Image, Picture

Definition of Likeness

1. n. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Definition of Likeness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity. ¹

2. Noun. Appearance or form; guise. ¹

3. Noun. That which closely resembles; a portrait. ¹

4. Verb. (archaic transitive) To depict. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Likeness

1. a pictorial representation [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Likeness

likelier
likelies
likeliest
likelihood
likelihood functions
likelihoods
likelily
likeliness
likelinesses
likely
likely story
likeminded
likemindedness
liken
likened
likeness (current term)
likenessed
likenesses
likenessing
likening
likens
liker
likers
likes
likest
liketh
likewake
likewakes
likewalk
likewalks

Literary usage of Likeness

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

1. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1896)
"THE RELATIONS OF likeness AND UNlikeness. § 371. At length continued analysis has brought us down to the relations underlying not only all preceding ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"THE likeness OF CHRIST REX REGUM. THE Dean of Canterbury hag been examining my " Ilex Regurn " in the light of the opinions of the Fathers from the third to ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Because he would not have added the attribute "sinful,"" if he meant the " likeness " to be so predicated of the substance as to deny the verity thereof; ..."

4. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"Such likeness is to be found in univocal causes only, (ii.) The likeness of the effect may pre-exist in its cause ; because the effect possesses the same ..."

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