Similarity
//ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti// noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Closeness of appearance to something else. countable, uncountable
- 2 the quality of being similar wordnet
- 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 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 A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances countable, uncountable
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- 6 The property of two matrices being similar. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"What makes the classics both intriguing and fascinating is that they're near enough that we can feel the similarity and they're distant enough that we have to do some work to bridge the gap."
Etymology
From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity
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