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resemblance

re·sem·blance

UK/ɹɪˈzɛmbləns/US/ɹəˈzɛmbləns/

noun

What it means

  1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of resembling.

    His wife and sister had too many points of resemblance, not to entertain a strong and mutual dislike.

    1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 16–17
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    Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

    2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI

    Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity

  2. countableuncountableThat which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  3. countableuncountableA comparison; a simile.

In a sentence

His wife and sister had too many points of resemblance, not to entertain a strong and mutual dislike.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 16–17

Where it comes from

  1. Anglo-Normanresemblance
  2. Englishresemblance

From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance). Morphologically resemble + -ance.

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