similitude
Americannoun
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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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By combining the terminal speed of the sphere's fall with the resistance the sphere encounters from the fluid as it falls, researchers can determine an analogue for the Reynolds similitude.
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
I have a lot of similitude with the younger Celine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The diversity of the world outside of the campus is limited and regimented by the similitude of the vocation.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018
Whatever there was to be done and ordered in the Church from the beginning to the end was, by the force of the similitude with Himself thus used, included in these words.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
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
However these various similitudes might be intended as compliments, they afforded no gratification to Uncle Philip, whose secret opinion was, that if Sam looked like anybody, it was undoubtedly Paul Jones.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
Prefig′urātive, showing by previous figures, types, or similitudes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Dil’s similitudes were very limited, but Cinderella and the fairy godmother did come into her mind.
From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.
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