dissimilarity

Roget category 18

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

#18. Dissimilarity

noun

dissimilarity, dissimilaritude^† — unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance^† — divergence, variation.
— difference etc. 15 — novelty, originality — creativeness — oogamy^†.

verb

be unlike etc. adj. — vary etc. (differ) 15 — bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo [Lat.].
render unlike etc. adj. — vary etc. (diversify) 140.

adjective

dissimilar, unlike, disparate — divergent — of a different kind — etc. (class) 75 unmatched, unique — new, novel — unprecedented etc. 83 — original.
nothing of the kind — no such thing, quite another thing — far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid [Lat.], as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale" [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth — lucus a non lucendo [Lat.].
diversified etc. 16.1.

adverb

otherwise.

phrase

diis aliter visum [Lat.] — no more like my father than I to Hercules" [Hamlet].

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