SIMILITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does similitude mean? 

• SIMILITUDE (noun)
  The noun SIMILITUDE has 2 senses:

1. similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

2. a duplicate copy

  Familiarity information: SIMILITUDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMILITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

alikeness; likeness; similitude

Context example:

man created God in his own likeness

Hypernyms ("similitude" is a kind of...):

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Attribute:

alike; like; similar (having the same or similar characteristics)

dissimilar; unalike (not alike or similar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "similitude"):

comparability; compare; comparison; equivalence (qualities that are comparable)

mirror image; reflection; reflexion (a likeness in which left and right are reversed)

naturalness (the likeness of a representation to the thing represented)

resemblance (similarity in appearance or external or superficial details)

spitting image (a perfect likeness or counterpart)

Antonym:

dissimilitude (dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A duplicate copy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

counterpart; similitude; twin

Hypernyms ("similitude" is a kind of...):

duplicate; duplication (a copy that corresponds to an original exactly)

 Context examples 

Whatever occurred in the instant present, Martin's mind immediately presented associated antithesis or similitude which ordinarily expressed themselves to him in vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I assured him, how extremely desirous I was that he should be satisfied on every point; but I doubted much, whether it would be possible for me to explain myself on several subjects, whereof his honour could have no conception; because I saw nothing in his country to which I could resemble them; that, however, I would do my best, and strive to express myself by similitudes, humbly desiring his assistance when I wanted proper words; which he was pleased to promise me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)