dissimilitude
/ˌdɪsɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd
/noun [mass noun] formal
Dissimilarity or diversity.Now there is a compelling formulation of the principle of Anglican comprehensiveness - ‘manifold and yet harmonious dissimilitude’!...
- The worlds which we see - with all their properties of immensity, resemblance, and dissimilitude - result from the endless multiplicity of falling atoms.
- The dissimilitude is so striking, that the utmost you can here pretend to is a guess, a conjecture, a presumption concerning a similar cause; and how that pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin dissimilitudo, from dissimilis 'unlike', from dis- (expressing reversal) + similis 'like, similar'.
- household servant
- household stuff
- household suffrage
- household sugar
- household troops
- household word
- householdy
- house-hunt
- house-hunter
- house husband
- house in multiple occupation
- house jobber
- house journal
- housekeep
- housekeeper
- housekeeperly
- housekeeping
- housekeeping allowance
- housekeeping book
- housekeeping goods
- housekeeping keys
- housekeeping money
- house-knacker
- housel
- house lady