similarity

Roget category 17

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

#17. Similarity

noun

similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance — affinity, approximation, parallelism — agreement etc. 23 — analogy, analogicalness^† — correspondence, homoiousia^†, parity.
connaturalness^†, connaturality^† — brotherhood, family likeness.
alliteration, rhyme, pun.
repetition etc. 104 — sameness etc. (identity) 13 — uniformity etc. 16 — isogamy^†.
analogue — the like — match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister — one'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.].
parallel — simile — type etc. (metaphor) 521 — image etc. (representation) 554 — photograph — close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.

verb

be similar etc. adj. — look like, resemble, bear resemblance — smack of, savor of, approximate — parallel, match, rhyme with — take after — imitate etc. 19 — favor, span [U.S.].
render similar etc. adj. — assimilate, approximate, bring near — connaturalize^†, make alike — rhyme, pun.

adjective

similar — resembling etc. v. — like, alike — twin.
analogous, analogical — parallel, of a piece [Fr.] — such as, so — homoiousian^†.
connatural^†, congener, allied to — akin to etc. (consanguineous) 11.
approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like — a show of — mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
exact etc. (true) 494 — lifelike, faithful — true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of — for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau [Fr.] — as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare — instar omnium [Lat.], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.

adverb

as if, so to speak — as it were, as if it were — quasi, 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 servant — like father, like son — the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree — a chip off the old block

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