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View synonyms for likeness

likeness

[ lahyk-nis ]

noun

  1. a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait:

    to draw a good likeness of Churchill.

  2. the state or fact of being like:

    I can't get over your likeness to my friend.

    Synonyms: similitude, resemblance

  3. the semblance or appearance of something; guise:

    to assume the likeness of a swan.

    Synonyms: form, shape



likeness

/ ˈlaɪknɪs /

noun

  1. the condition of being alike; similarity
  2. a painted, carved, moulded, or graphic image of a person or thing
  3. an imitative appearance; semblance


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Word History and Origins

Origin of likeness1

before 950; Middle English liknesse, Old English līcnes, variant of gelīcnes. See alike, -ness

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Example Sentences

If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there?

Now, her likeness stars in a “Consume Responsibly” billboard.

His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store.

She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter.

Other demonstrators held up photos of Martin Luther King, Jr.—some wore masks of his likeness, too—and Frederick Douglas.

The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.

In the splendid woman that entered, Monsieur de Garnache saw a wonderful likeness to the boy who stood beside him.

In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.

We notice that more attention is given to the problem of placing a feature than to that of making a likeness of it.

On inspection it was certainly a monstrous production, but it did present an ugly likeness of the coalheaver.

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