Antonyms for similitude


Grammar : Noun
Spell : si-mil-i-tood, -tyood
Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈmɪl ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud


Definition of similitude

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French similitude "similarity, relationship, comparison" (13c.) and directly from Latin similitudinem (nominative similitudo) "likeness, resemblance," from similis "like" (see similar).
  • noun semblance
  • noun resemblance
Example sentences :
  • But Jabez had not forgotten the similitude of the swine ring.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • There was a similitude in their genius and in their sufferings.
  • Extract from : « The Poetical Works of William Collins » by William Collins
  • What is the similitude then between the beauties of sense and that beauty which is divine?
  • Extract from : « An Essay on the Beautiful » by Plotinus
  • For if there be any similitude the respective objects must be similar.
  • Extract from : « An Essay on the Beautiful » by Plotinus
  • Who ever yet hath seen it, who has heard of the similitude of it?
  • Extract from : « The Reign of Mary Tudor » by W. Llewelyn Williams.
  • They are to be “polished after the similitude of” that most splendid of structures, “a palace.”
  • Extract from : « The Young Maiden » by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
  • Here too we have games, but with a dissimilitude in similitude.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 » by Various
  • Resemblance, relation, or equality; a similitude of ratios or proportions.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The reason or rate of a section is thus: The similitude doth follow.
  • Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
  • And the similitude which stamps them all, is also a feature worthy of study.
  • Extract from : « At Fault » by Kate Chopin.

Synonyms for similitude

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