likeness

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. portrait, effigy, counterpart; similarity; resemblance. See representation.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Similarity]

Syn. resemblance, correspondence, similarity, analogy, parallelism, affinity, similitude, congruence, concordance, sameness; see also similarity .

2. [A representation]

Syn. image, effigy, portrait; see copy , picture 3 , representation .

Syn.- likeness implies close correspondence in appearance, qualities, nature, etc. [ her remarkable likeness to her sister ] ; similarity suggests only partial correspondence [ a certain similarity between your problem and mine ] ; resemblance usually implies correspondence in appearance or in superficial aspects [ the resemblance between a diamond and a zircon ] ; analogy refers to a correspondence between attributes or circumstances of things that are basically unlike [ the analogy between a computer and the human brain ]

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. resemblance semblance, similarity, correspondence, sameness, uniformity, analogy.

2. facsimile replica, image, representation, depiction, portrait, picture, photo, copy, model.

ANT.: 1. difference, dissimilarity

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being alike: affinity, alikeness, analogy, comparison, correspondence, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude, uniformity, uniformness. See SAME. 2. Something closely resembling another: carbon copy, copy, duplicate, facsimile, image, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction, simulacrum. Archaic: simulacre. Law: counterpart. See SAME.