similitude

American  

[si-mil-i-tood, -tyood] / sɪˈmɪl ɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /

noun

• similitudes
  plural

1. likeness; resemblance.

   a similitude of habits.

2. a person or thing that is like or the match or counterpart of another.

   This expression is a similitude of the other.

3. semblance; image.

   a similitude of the truth.

4. a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory.

   He spoke by similitudes.

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similitude British  

/ sɪˈmɪlɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. likeness; similarity

2. a thing or sometimes a person that is like or the counterpart of another

3. archaic a simile, allegory, or parable

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonsimilitude
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• similitudes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of similitude

1325–75; Middle English < Latin similitūdō likeness, equivalent to simili ( s ) similar + -tūdō -tude

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

similitude similitudes

They must have dissipation and may follow the Reynolds similitude, but the right approach to examine it had not yet been developed.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024

“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

“The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

A Provençal poet, called Marcabres or Marcabrus, has been placed among the versifiers, but none of his works bear the least similitude to the subject; and, moreover, the language itself is an objection.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016

For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.

From Time Magazine Archive

However these various similitudes might be intended as compliments, they afforded no gratification to Uncle Philip, whose secret opinion was, that if Sam looked like anybody, it was undoubtedly Paul Jones.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

In states of deep sorrow or strong trial, when the heart turns from the natural world, hopeless of aid or consolation, truth often comes in dreams and similitudes.

From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The eschatology is similar to that taught in the similitudes of the Book of Enoch.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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