similitude
Americannoun
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similitudes
plural
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likeness; resemblance.
a similitude of habits.
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a person or thing that is like or the match or counterpart of another.
This expression is a similitude of the other.
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semblance; image.
a similitude of the truth.
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a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory.
He spoke by similitudes.
noun
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likeness; similarity
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a thing or sometimes a person that is like or the counterpart of another
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archaic a simile, allegory, or parable
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Etymology
Origin of similitude
1325–75; Middle English < Latin similitūdō likeness, equivalent to simili ( s ) similar + -tūdō -tude
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The Reynolds law of dynamic similarity or Reynolds similitude, states that if two fluids flow around similar structures with different length scales, they are hydrodynamically identical provided they exhibit the same Reynolds number.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
“Everyone says that we have a similitude with Guardiola’s teams and especially when he was the coach of Barça,” Bonmatí said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
“The similitude across such an immense scale is astonishing,” Dr. Galison said.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
A similitude might likewise be made out for Belgium and Germany.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
But plenty of writers can conjure exciting similitudes.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write.
From Time Magazine Archive
The eschatology is similar to that taught in the similitudes of the Book of Enoch.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Prefig′urātive, showing by previous figures, types, or similitudes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Do we not avoid as much as possible all such similitudes, as being derogatory to our notions of the Supreme?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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