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Definition of Resemblance
1. Noun. Similarity in appearance or external or superficial details.
Specialized synonyms: Mutual Resemblance, Affinity
Derivative terms: Resemble
Definition of Resemblance
1. n. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
Definition of Resemblance
1. Noun. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. ¹
2. Noun. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. ¹
3. Noun. A comparison; a simile. ¹
4. Noun. Probability; verisimilitude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resemblance
1. semblance [n -S] - See also: semblance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resemblance
Literary usage of Resemblance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"Hitherto the idea of relation which we have had specially in view has been that
of relation in the way of resemblance, and the propositions have been such ..."
2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Hitherto the idea of relation which we have had specially in view has been that
of relation in the way of resemblance, and the propositions have been such ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"other red flower in color, the general resemblance has been analyzed and found
to consist in a specific resemblance of ..."
4. The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective Discourse by David Jayne Hill (1883)
"Direct resemblance, contrary to a natural presupposition, ... Here there is a
direct resemblance between blossom dust and the flour on the miller's clothing ..."
5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"We have to measure the amount of resemblance, not the frequency of identity.
METHODS OF MEASURING resemblance In order to understand the measurements of the ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"Mill's meaning evidently is that when you apply a general name to a thing, as
for instance in calling snow white, you mean that there is a resemblance ..."
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