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English Dictionary: likeness	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
likeness n similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" Synonym(s): likeness, alikeness, similitude Antonym(s): dissimilitude, unlikeness picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing Synonym(s): likeness, semblance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Likeness \Like"ness\, n. [AS. gel[c6]cnes.] 1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable. 2. Appearance or form; guise. An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange. 3. That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. --Macaulay. 4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.] He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. --Wyclif (Luke iv. 23). Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.