resemblance

[Re*semĀ·blance]

A resemblance is a similarity in appearance. Children usually have a strong resemblance to their biological parents.

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The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

Noun
similarity in appearance or external or superficial details


n.
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

n.
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.

n.
A comparison; a simile.

n.
Probability; verisimilitude.


Resemblance

Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.] 1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other.
2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.
3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] Chaucer. 4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] Shak. Syn. -- Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.

The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

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Usage Examples

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

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Other Usage Examples

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

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