likeness

The way two people or things look alike or share similar qualities.

• There is a family likeness.
• His likeness to his grandfather surprised us.
• Did you notice the likeness between their voices?

How to use it: likeness to someone/something (Her likeness to her mother is remarkable.); likeness between A and B (There is a strong likeness between the two designs.)

Similar words: similarity, resemblance

Opposites: difference, dissimilarity

Common phrases: striking likeness, family likeness, likeness to someone

A picture or model made to show what a person or thing looks like.

• The drawing is a good likeness.
• She painted a likeness of her grandmother.
• The museum displays several likenesses of the king.

How to use it: likeness of someone/something (The artist made a bronze likeness of the singer.)

Similar words: portrait, representation, image

Common phrases: good likeness, likeness of someone, paint a likeness, faithful likeness

The appearance or shape of someone or something.

• The creature appeared in human likeness.
• The statue was shaped in the likeness of a bird.
• In the story, a god takes the likeness of an old man.

How to use it: in the likeness of someone/something (The spirit appeared in the likeness of a child.)

Similar words: form, appearance, guise

Common phrases: in human likeness, in the likeness, take someone’s likeness