dissimilarity
noun
unlikeness; difference.
dissimilarities
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pluralof dissimilarity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I think what struck me at first was the number of parallels and dissimilarities between the revolution and what’s happening now.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
But the more Arteaga and his colleagues looked at the snake on his book cover—a “cloud forest morph”—the more they found dissimilarities.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
Organisms belonging to a similar biome have dissimilarities in their makeup.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
While there are many dissimilarities, “Magufuli presents his leadership as a wholesale return to Nyerere,” said Dan Paget, a politics professor at the University of Aberdeen in Britain.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
Yet despite these great dissimilarities the stories of the encounter run in broad parallel.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
