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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However, this Reynolds similitude is not applied to quantum superfluids, as they do not have viscosity -- at least, that's what researchers have believed.
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
Then follows a similitude of the haystack, sculptured in bas-relief, and encircled with these words, "The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."
From Nature and Culture by Harvey Rice
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
Pious minds have been disturbed by these similitudes.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
It is a threefold collection of visions, commandments, and similitudes.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
It is only concerning matters which leave our souls free and unshackled that we notice similitudes and connection.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
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