dissimilitude
Americannoun
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unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
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a point of difference; dissimilarity.
noun
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dissimilarity; difference
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a point of difference
Etymology
Origin of dissimilitude
1525–35; < Latin dissimilitūdō, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + similitūdō similitude
Example Sentences
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It was a singular anomaly of likeness coexisting with perfect dissimilitude.
From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
In the countenances of the three castaways thus introduced, I have admitted a dissimilitude something more than casual; something more, even, than what might be termed provincial.
From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne
A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Reid, Mayne
Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
We cannot perhaps give a better notion of their dissimilitude, than by saying that one school produced Chaucer, and the other Petrarch.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
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