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dissimilitude


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dissimilitude  \Dis`si*mil"i*tude\,  n.  [L.  dissimilitudo,  fr 
  dissimilis:  cf  F.  dissimilitude.] 
  1.  Want  of  resemblance;  unlikeness;  dissimilarity. 
 
  Dissimilitude  between  the  Divinity  and  images. 
  --Stillingfleet. 
 
  2.  (Rhet.)  A  comparison  by  contrast;  a  dissimile. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  dissimilitude 
  n  :  dissimilarity  evidenced  by  an  absence  of  likeness  [syn:  {unlikeness}] 
  [ant:  {likeness},  {likeness}] 




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