dissimilarity
Americannoun
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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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The dissimilarity of impacts from each type can be significant.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 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
These traditions of Jesus’s eminence cannot pass the criterion of dissimilarity and are very likely later pious expansions of the stories told about him—told by people who, after his resurrection, did come to understand that he was, in some sense, divine.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2014
On reflection, Cahokia’s dissimilarity to other cities is not surprising; having never seen a city, its citizens had to invent every aspect of urban life for themselves.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
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