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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LI'KENESS, n.
1. Resemblance in form; similitude. The picture is a good likeness of the original.
2. Resemblance; form; external appearance. Guard against an enemy in the likeness of a friend.
3. One that resembles another; a copy; a counterpart.
I took you for your likeness, Chloe.
4. An image, picture or statue, resembling a person or thing. Exodus 20.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" [syn: likeness, alikeness, similitude] [ant: dissimilitude, unlikeness]
2: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing [syn: likeness, semblance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: before 12th century 1. copy, portrait 2. appearance, semblance 3. the quality or state of being like ; resemblance Synonyms: likeness, similarity, resemblance, similitude, analogy mean agreement or correspondence in details. likeness implies a closer correspondence than similarity which often implies that things are merely somewhat alike <a remarkable likeness to his late father> <some similarity between the two cases>. resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities <statements that bear little resemblance to the truth>. similitude applies chiefly to correspondence between abstractions <two schools of social thought showing points of similitude>. analogy implies likeness or parallelism in relations rather than in appearance or qualities <pointed out analogies to past wars>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 (foll. by between, to) resemblance. 2 (foll. by of) a semblance or guise (in the likeness of a ghost). 3 a portrait or representation (is a good likeness). Etymology: OE geliknes (as LIKE(1), -NESS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Likeness Like"ness, n. [AS. gel[=i]cnes.] 1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable. 2. Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange. 3. That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. --Macaulay. 4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.] He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(likenesses) 1. If two things or people have a likeness to each other, they are similar to each other. These myths have a startling likeness to one another... There might be a likeness between their features, but their eyes were totally dissimilar. = similarity N-SING: oft N to/between n 2. A likeness of someone is a picture or sculpture of them. The museum displays wax likenesses of every US president. N-COUNT: with poss 3. If you say that a picture of someone is a good likeness, you mean that it looks just like them. She says the artist's impression is an excellent likeness of her abductor. N-COUNT: usu sing, usu adj N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Resemblance, similarity, similitude, semblance, form, external appearance. 2. Copy, facsimile, counterpart, image, representation, portrait, effigy.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A phrase used by thieves when the officers or turnkeys are examining their countenance. As the traps are taking our likeness; the officers are attentively observing us.

Moby Thesaurus

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