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resemblance

noun
/ɹɪˈzɛmbləns/UK/ɹəˈzɛmbləns/US

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance). Morphologically resemble + -ance.

  1. borrowed from resemblance

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of resembling.

    • His wife and sister had too many points of resemblance, not to entertain a strong and mutual dislike.
    • Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

  2. That which resembles, or is similar

    That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.

  3. A comparison

    A comparison; a simile.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Probability

      Probability; verisimilitude.

The neighborhood

Derived

family resemblance, misresemblance, nonresemblance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at resemblance. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at resemblance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at resemblance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA