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
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The mountaineers then become a distinct nation, cut off by dissimilitude of speech from conversation with their neighbours.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
On this voluntary recollection of ideas our faculty of reason depends, as it enables us to acquire an idea of the dissimilitude of any two ideas.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
But what to me formed the most bewitching part of the prospect was the elegance of the trees and their perfect dissimilitude to any which had previously beheld.
From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
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