likeness
nounEtymology
From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
Definitions
The state or quality of being like or alike.
- I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.
Appearance or form
Appearance or form; guise.
- A foe in the likeness of a friend
That which closely resembles
That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
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To depict.
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
- Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.
The neighborhood
- synonymsimilarity
- neighborlike
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at likeness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at likeness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at likeness
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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