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unlikeness

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un·like·ness  (n-lkns)
n.
The quality or condition of being unlike. See Synonyms at difference.
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Noun1.unlikenessunlikeness - dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
dissimilitude
dissimilarity, unsimilarity - the quality of being dissimilar
alikeness, likeness, similitude - similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"


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Whereas none of the characteristics I have mentioned are peculiar to quality, the fact that likeness and unlikeness can be predicated with reference to quality only, gives to that category its distinctive feature.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
Her unlikeness to the rest of them had, by this time, penetrated to Mr.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
He saw that others were observing Lydgate's strange unlikeness to himself, and it occurred to him that merely to touch his elbow and call him aside for a moment might rouse him from his absorption.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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