similaritynoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/B2 the fact that people or things look or are the same:
I can see the similarity between you and your mother.
The book bears several striking similarities to last year's bestseller.
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- There is a great deal of similarity between Caroline and her mother .
- His situation has several similarities with our own.
- The teacher found several suspicious similarities between their work.
- The painting bears a striking similarity to one in the Louvre.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- every inch idiom
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- inch
- resemblance
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
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