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Likeness
Definitions
- 1 The state or quality of being like or alike.
"I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever."
- 2 picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing wordnet
- 3 Appearance or form; guise.
"A foe in the likeness of a friend"
- 4 similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things wordnet
- 5 That which closely resembles; a portrait.
"How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine."
- 1 To depict. archaic, transitive
"I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well."
Etymology
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”).
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”).
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