Likeness Definition

līknĭs
likenesses
noun
likenesses
The state or quality of being like; similarity.
Webster's New World
(the same) Form or shape; semblance.
Zeus appeared in the likeness of a swan.
Webster's New World
Something that is like; copy, portrait, etc.
Webster's New World
A pictorial, graphic, or sculptured representation of something; an image.
American Heritage

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
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verb

(archaic) To depict.

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Other Word Forms of Likeness

Noun

Singular:
likeness
Plural:
likenesses

Origin of Likeness

  • like +"Ž -ness; from Old English licnes, a shortening of gelicness. The verb is derived from the noun.

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Likeness Sentence Examples

  • In the end, this volume diverges into the Attributes, construing God in the likeness of man via eminentiae.'

  • She was plotting her return with a chain of events that ended with the human that bore her likeness being turned over to Darkyn.

  • The likeness of the Archean of one part of the country to that of another is one of its striking features.

  • He looked at Natasha with sorrow and surprise as at a bad likeness of a person once dear.

  • There were a few landscapes that were quite good, then he opened the page to a perfect likeness of himself.

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Words Starting With

LLILIK

Words Ending With

SSSESS

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likeness

Words Starting With L and Ending With S

Starts With L & Ends With SStarts With LI & Ends With SStarts With L & Ends With SS

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With L8 Letter Words Ending With S