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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIMILAR'ITY, n. Likeness; resemblance; as a similarity of features. There is a as a similarity in the features of the Laplanders and Samoiedes, but little similarity between the features of Europeans and the woolly haired Africans.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being similar [ant: dissimilarity, unsimilarity]
2: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit [syn: similarity, law of similarity]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1664 1. the quality or state of being similar ; resemblance 2. a comparable aspect ; correspondence Synonyms: see likeness

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Similarity Sim`i*lar"i*ty, n.; pl. -ties. [Cf. F. similarit['e].] The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. --Sir W. Hamilton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(similarities) 1. If there is a similarity between two or more things, they are similar to each other. The astonishing similarity between my brother and my first-born son... She is also 25 and a native of Birmingham, but the similarity ends there. N-UNCOUNT: oft N between/in/with n 2. Similarities are features that things have which make them similar to each other. There were significant similarities between mother and son... ? difference N-COUNT: usu pl, oft N between/in/with n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Likeness, resemblance, parallelism, analogy, correspondence, parity.

Moby Thesaurus

accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alikeness, alliance, analogousness, analogy, approximation, assemblage, association, balance, bond, closeness, coincidence, collation, combination, commensurability, comparability, comparableness, comparativeness, comparison, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, correlation, dealings, deduction, disjunction, equivalence, filiation, homology, intercourse, interrelation, intimacy, junction, liaison, link, linkage, linking, mutual attraction, nearness, parallel, propinquity, proportion, proportionability, proximity, rapport, ratio, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude, sympathy, synonymity, tie, tie-in, union