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likenesslike‧ness /ˈlaɪknəs/ noun - Dmitri claimed there was a likeness, but I could never see it.
- He likens creation to a painter mixing just four pigments to form the likenesses of all things.
- His own likeness appears squeezed in above his initials in the right-hand corner.
- In the first place, coins can supply portraits of persons for whom we have no other likeness.
- In this church we have a striking and unusual likeness of a home.
- Jonas's expression hardened to a remarkable likeness of his grandson's.
- The likeness was remarkably good, certainly enough for a quick check at Immigration.
- These are likenesses of the man who committed those attacks.
► family likeness I can see the family likeness. ► good/perfect/true etc likenessADJECTIVE► good· A fair painting; free in style but at the same time a good likeness. VERB► bear· Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father; so much so that he looked like a younger version.· Formal operational schemes, such as proportion and probability, bear a closer likeness to scientific reasoning. ► see· Would he perhaps see a likeness?· Getting closer, I saw the family likeness.· She was back at Madame Tussaud's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world's most celebrated Hall of Fame.· What you see is a three-dimensional likeness projected into space, at a distance from the plate. 1[countable, uncountable] the quality of being similar in appearance to someone or something SYN resemblancelikeness to Hugh’s uncanny likeness to his father I can see the family likeness.2[countable] a painting or photograph of a person, especially one that looks very like the persongood/perfect/true etc likenesslikeness of That’s a remarkable likeness of Julia. |