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Definition of Likeness
1. Noun. Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things. "Man created God in his own likeness"
Generic synonyms: Similarity
Specialized synonyms: Comparability, Compare, Comparison, Equivalence, Mirror Image, Reflection, Reflexion, Naturalness, Resemblance, Spitting Image
Attributes: Alike, Like, Similar, Dissimilar, Unalike
Derivative terms: Alike, Like, Like, Like
Antonyms: Unlikeness, Dissimilitude
2. Noun. Picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing.
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
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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