likeness
Use Likeness in a sentence
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| —n | |
| 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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Likeness
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
likeness
O.E. (Northumbrian) licnes, shortened from gelicness (see like (adj.)).
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Example sentences
The image is a digitally produced likeness, not a photograph.
Anatomy of a scientific bag of tricks to conjure up the likeness of an unknown face.
But they do not apply if the likeness is considered art.
He throws it to the ground in a frenzy, hacking at it with quick strokes to delineate its likeness.
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