What is another word for likenesses?

Pronunciation: [lˈa͡ɪknəsɪz] (IPA)

When it comes to describing similarities between two things, the word "likenesses" can be replaced with several synonyms. "Similarities" and "resemblances" are commonly used words that convey the same meaning as likenesses. "Correspondences" and "parallels" are other synonyms that can be employed in place of likenesses. Additionally, "analogies" and "comparisons" are terms that can be used to describe similarities between two subjects. In summary, there are many suitable alternatives to the word "likenesses" that can be used when discussing similarities between two or more things.

What are the hypernyms for Likenesses?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Likenesses

He could create nothing greater than likenesses of himself.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham
In this twentieth publication of The Filson Club, the manuscript will make its way to many and present them with likenesses of those who devoted their lives to instructing the young of our land in the art of administering to the sick and afflicted.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
Pen pictures are sometimes as efficient as likenesses in oil, and the characteristic of Doctor Peter's pictures is fidelity so executed that they seem to be the originals standing in life before us.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter

Famous quotes with Likenesses

  • A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
    Edvard Munch
  • The statement of a law of nature involves the formation of a conceptin which the likenesses of phenomena are collected, and the differencesare eliminated.
    J. R. Partington
  • All lightly shimmering in the heat, these lifeforms, like wonders much reduced. Rough likenesses thrown up at hearsay after the things themselves had faded in men’s minds.
    Cormac McCarthy
  • Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past Lingering within him, with a keener sense Than is upon the thoughts of common men Of what has been, that fills the actual world With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, That were and are not; and the fairer they, The more their contrast with existing things, The more his power, the greater is his grief.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • A later generation could have explained the miracle to Sir Frank — though explaining in terms he would not have understood. Though he knew well enough the theory of family traits and likenesses, it would have been impossible then to make him comprehend the intricacy of a chromosome which carries inside it — not merely the stereotypes of parental hair or temperament — but the secret knowledge of how to breathe, how to work the muscles to move the bones, how to grow, how to remember, how to commence the processes of thought … all the infinite number of secret "how to's" that have to be passed on for life to stay above jelly level. A freak chromosome in Sir Frank ensured he passed on, together with these usual secrets, the secret of his individual consciousness.
    Brian Aldiss

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