Something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between Marilla Cuthbert and Mrs. Rachel, in spite of—or perhaps because of—their dissimilarity.
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Dissimilarity
Synonyms for "dissimilarity" (67 found)
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8 translations across 6 languages.
Esperanto
1 entries- malsimileco noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
French
1 entries- dissimilitude noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
Irish
1 entries- éagsúlacht noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
Portuguese
2 entries- dessemelhança noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
- dissimilaridade noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
Spanish
2 entries- desemejanza noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
- disimilitud noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
Ukrainian
1 entries- несхо́жість noun (lack of similarity in appearance to something else)
Sample sentences
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The experiment was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow, but with the dissimilarity that it did not melt.
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