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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Solitary resemblances of sounds are as little proof of communication between nations as the dissimilitude of a few roots furnishes evidence against the affiliation of the German from the Persian and the Greek.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
A strange dissimilitude of which the reader has the key.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
Did one spirit harmonize them, in spite of the dissimilitude of manners between the North and the South, which were now for the first time brought into political relations?
From A Book of Autographs by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The dissimilitude of Sumatra and Java, separated by only a narrow channel, occurs to us, as well as that of Madagascar, but narrowly divided from the neighboring continent.
From The Pearl of India by Maturin Murray Ballou
That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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