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Definition of Likeness

Likeness

  1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.
  2. Appearance or form; guise.
  3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
  4. A comparison; parable; proverb.

Likeness Quotations

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Edvard Munch

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
Jasper Johns

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
Benny Hinn
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Likeness Translations

likeness in French is similitude
likeness in Italian is assomiglianza
likeness in Latin is visio, similitudo, imago
likeness in Norwegian is likhet
likeness in Spanish is analogia, semejanza
likeness in Swedish is likhet

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