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likeness
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of LIKENESS
1
a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing <the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness>
Related Words delineation, depiction, representation, resemblance, view; portrait; daub, drawing, finger painting; etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor; caricature, cartoon, doodle; collage, montage, photograph; hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, ideogram, ideograph; pictograph; diagram
2
something or someone that strongly resembles another <why, you're the very likeness of your mother!>
Synonyms alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin
3
the quality or state of having many qualities in common <the forgery was difficult to detect due to the pinpoint likeness it bore to the original>
Synonyms alikeness, community, comparability, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similitude
Related Words semblance; affinity, analogousness; equation, equivalence, equivalency, par, parity; identicalness, identity, sameness; correlation, relationship; exchangeability, interchangeability; accordance, agreement, compatibility, conformity, congruity
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