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Similarity

//ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Closeness of appearance to something else. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being similar wordnet
  3. 3
    The relation of sharing properties. countable, uncountable

    "Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all."

  4. 4
    a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit wordnet
  5. 5
    A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    The property of two matrices being similar. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

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