dissimilituden.
/dɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/ 1.
a. The condition or quality of being unlike; unlikeness, difference, dissimilarity; diversity.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun]
diversitya1340
difference1340
variancec1374
distancea1382
unlikenessa1387
variationc1405
discrepation?a1425
distinction1435
severaltyc1449
unlikelinessc1450
dissemblance1463
unlikelihood1483
alteritya1500
indifferencec1503
discrepancea1522
dissimilitude1532
differency1542
variety1552
discernment1570
disparitya1575
discrepancy1579
otherness1587
discernance1592
imparity1608
disanalogy1610
disresemblance1622
dislikeness1623
diff1624
inconformity1625
irresemblance1628
variousness1628
odds1642
disparation1654
aliety1656
disparility1656
disparateness1659
severality1664
nonconformity1672
unconformableness1712
dissimilarity1715
differentness1727
differ1787
allogeneitya1834
otherwiseness1890
otherliness1937
diversion-
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 682/2 There is speciall dissimilitude betwene the sinagoge and ye church.
1564 Briefe Exam. *** iv Dissimilitude of life and diuersitie of maners.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxi. 84 Dissimilitude in a diversity either in quality or passion.
1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind v. viii, in Wks. (1863) I. 131/2 The colours are perfectly distinguishable, and their dissimilitude is manifest.
1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches II. i. iii. 50 It often happens that men of very dissimilar talents..are attracted together by their very dissimilitude.
b. with a and plural. An instance of dissimilarity.
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1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 6 Whereupon grewe maruelous great dissimilitudes.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell v. 63 I knowe Nature delights and triumphs in dissimilitudes.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxviii*. 28 New impressions..might wear away their dissimilitudes by long cohabitation.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 63 Such places..bloom only for the summer-season, and offer a thousand dissimilitudes even then.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile > dissimile
dissimilitude1589
dissimile1682
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 202 The Tuskan poet vseth this Resemblance, inuring as well by Dissimilitude as Similitude.
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 128 This that I haue sayd..is sufficient to shew the..vse of similitudes, and dissimilitudes.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Dissimilitude, unlikeness, whence a Form of Speech is so called wherein divers things are compared in a diverse Quality.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dissimilitude, or, a Dissimili, in Rhetoric, &c. an Argument, wherein, from dissimilar, or unlike Things, other dissimilars are deduced.
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