likeness
- a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
- the state or fact of being like: I can't get over your likeness to my friend.
- the semblance or appearance of something; guise: to assume the likeness of a swan.
Origin of likeness
Synonyms for likeness
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photograph, effigy, image, depiction, replica, facsimile, reproduction, portrait, equivalence, picture, sameness, resemblance, uniformity, photocopy, similarity, affinity, analogy, simile, similitude, semblanceExamples from the Web for likeness
Contemporary Examples of likeness
If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there?
Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas CardAbby Haglage
September 17, 2014
Now, her likeness stars in a “Consume Responsibly” billboard.
Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas CardAbby Haglage
September 17, 2014
His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store.
She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter.
Other demonstrators held up photos of Martin Luther King, Jr.—some wore masks of his likeness, too—and Frederick Douglas.
Historical Examples of likeness
There was the name and the likeness of a man far more familiar to many of them.
Explorations in AustraliaJohn Forrest
There seems to be some likeness in the positions of Paul and myself.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
Addison has been less studied; and his likeness has consequently been less questioned.
De Libris: Prose and VerseAustin Dobson
The dissimilarity of the plays only accentuates the likeness of the two protagonists.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
This is not altogether the fact, though I for one see no shame in acknowledging the likeness.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
likeness
- the condition of being alike; similarity
- a painted, carved, moulded, or graphic image of a person or thing
- an imitative appearance; semblance