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noun
The quality of being dissimilar or different; lack of resemblance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: dissimilarity, nonresemblance
Antonyms: similitude, similarity, likeness, sameness
noun
dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: unlikeness
Antonyms: similitude
Broader terms: dissimilarity, unsimilarity
History
From Middle English dissimilitude, from Latin dissimilitūdō, from dissimilis (“unlike”). By surface analysis, dissimilar + -itude or dis- + similitude.
