similarity

B1 Topic:Law & Government
US /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ UK /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/
noun Freq #20562

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The state of being alike, or a feature that two or more things share.

    There is a striking similarity between the two paintings.

  2. 2
    noun

    The fact that something looks or seems close to something else.

    The similarity in their voices is remarkable.

Thesaurus

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Word family
Forms similarities
Derived forms antisimilarityautosimilaritybiosimilaritybisimilaritydissimilarityhaplosimilaritynonsimilarityself-similarity
Related forms alikenesslikeness

Etymology

From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

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