similitude
相似性,类似性,相像性,相似度
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Definitions
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- : likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
- : a person or thing that is like or the match or counterpart of another: This expression is a similitude of the other.
- : semblance; image: a similitude of the truth.
- : a likening or comparison in the form of a simile, parable, or allegory: He spoke by similitudes.
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Examples
It can be a place of similitude across city and state lines, or a site of discovery, depending on whether the gas station stocks regional specialties.
The similitude is a calumny on the descendants of Ishmael; the fiercest Bedouin are refined and mild compared with the Apaches.
Thus, under the similitude of a game, I have seen children confronted with the horrors of arithmetic, and even taught to gargle.
It must, of course, be understood that the similitude of de Vasselot's desire was only an outward one.
This exact similitude the traveler attributes to the great dryness of the air and earth in the desert where he beheld it.
But in either case the music is the music, and is like nothing else; it is no representation or similitude of anything whatsoever.