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similarity

Roget category 17

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.2. Relation
›› 1.2.3. Partial relation

#17. Similarity

noun

similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblanceaffinity, approximation, parallelismagreement etc. 23analogy, analogicalnesscorrespondence, homoiousia, parity.
connaturalness, connaturalitybrotherhood, family likeness.
alliteration, rhyme, pun.
repetition etc. 104sameness etc. (identity) 13uniformity etc. 16isogamy.
analoguethe likematch, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sisterone's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum [Lat.], Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]gens de meme famille [Fr.].
parallelsimiletype etc. (metaphor) 521image etc. (representation) 554photographclose resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.

verb

be similar etc. adj. — look like, resemble, bear resemblancesmack of, savor of, approximateparallel, match, rhyme withtake afterimitate etc. 19favor, span [U.S.].
render similar etc. adj. — assimilate, approximate, bring nearconnaturalize, make alikerhyme, pun.

adjective

similarresembling etc. v. — like, aliketwin.
analogous, analogicalparallel, of a piece [Fr.] such as, sohomoiousian.
connatural, congener, allied toakin to etc. (consanguineous) 11.
approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such likea show ofmock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
exact etc. (true) 494lifelike, faithfultrue to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture offor all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau [Fr.]as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stareinstar omnium [Lat.], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.

adverb

as if, so to speakas it were, as if it werequasi, just as, veluti in speculum [Lat.].

phrase

et sic de similibus [Lat.]tel maitre tel valet [Fr.]tel pere tel fils [Fr.]like master, like servantlike father, like sonthe fruit doesn't fall far from the treea chip off the old block

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