dissimilarity
Americannoun
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dissimilarities
plural
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unlikeness; difference.
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a point of difference.
There are dissimilarities in our outlooks.
noun
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difference; unlikeness
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a point or instance of difference
Synonym Usage
See difference.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dissimilarity
First recorded in 1695–1705; dis- 1 + similarity
Example Sentences
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Opponents of the Hogan plan agree that the dissimilarity with Virginia is real, although they view it from the opposite perspective.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2021
Ever since Chubbs Peterson convinced Happy Gilmore to trade his Bruins sweater for a sweater vest, golf and hockey have been irrevocably intertwined—an odd couple united by apparatus, cultural dissimilarity, and the comedy therein.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 5, 2019
But for all the surface dissimilarity of their deeds, the two men are ultimately guilty of the same transgression.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
For all their dissimilarity, Lévy and Carpenter share an unstated conviction that runs through most American debates about foreign policy: that all good things should come together.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2019
To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
As for the two trials, there are some similarities of less importance than the dissimilarities that are legalistically quite distinguishing.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
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
Canada is like an isotope of the United States: just enough dissimilarities, in unpredictable places, that you feel you can’t really take anything for granted.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
Yet despite these great dissimilarities the stories of the encounter run in broad parallel.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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