resemblance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=sem=blance

CIDE DICTIONARY

resemblance, n. [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.].

•  The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.  [1913 Webster]

  "One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.  [1913 Webster]

  "These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual."  [1913 Webster]
•  A comparison; a simile.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Probability; verisimilitude.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

resemblance, n. (often foll. by to, between, of) a likeness or similarity.

Derivative

resemblant adj.

Etymology

ME f. AF (as RESEMBLE)

THESAURUS

resemblance

accord, accordance, affinity, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, certified copy, closeness, coincidence, community, companion, comparability, comparableness, comparison, conformity, congruity, copy, copying, correspondence, counterfeit, dead ringer, double, duplicate, ectype, effigy, equivalence, exact likeness, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fellow, forgery, icon, identity, idol, image, imitation, likeness, likening, living image, living picture, match, mate, metaphor, mimicking, miniature, mirroring, model, nearness, parallel, parallelism, parity, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, photograph, picture, portrait, reflection, representation, rubbing, sameness, semblance, shadow, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, spit and image, spitting image, trace, tracing, twin, very image, very picture

ROGET THESAURUS

resemblance

Similarity

N similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance, affinity, approximation, parallelism, agreement, analogy, analogicalness, correspondence, homoiousia, parity, connaturalness, connaturality, brotherhood, family likeness, alliteration, rhyme, pun, repetition, sameness, uniformity, isogamy, analogue, the like, match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister, one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne, gens de meme famille, parallel, simile, type, image, photograph, close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance, similar, resembling, like, alike, twin, analogous, analogical, parallel, of a piece, such as, so, homoiousian, connatural, congener, allied to, akin to, approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like, a show of, mock, pseudo, simulating, representing, exact, lifelike, faithful, true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of, for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau, as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare, instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like, as if, so to speak, as it were, as if it were, quasi, just as, veluti in speculum, et sic de similibus, tel maitre tel valet, tel pere tel fils, like master, like servant, like father, like son, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, a chip off the old block.

Copy

N copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.