semejanza

Spanish

Etymology

semejar +‎ -anza; cf. also Late Latin similāntia. Compare Portuguese semelhança, Galician semellanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza.

Noun

semejanza f (plural semejanzas)

1. likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude

   Synonyms: similaridad, semblanza, similitud

Related terms

• semejante

Further reading

• “semejanza” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.