likeness

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Synonyms 1.2.3 Related terms 1.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English licnes shortening of gelicness.

[edit] Noun

likeness (plural likenesses)

1. The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
2. Appearance or form; guise.

   An enemy in the likeness of a friend.

3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.

   How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

[edit] Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1] Genesis, I, 26

  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

[edit] Synonyms

• similarity

[edit] Related terms

• like

[edit] See also

• copy
• portrait
• analogy