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likeness
A similar appearance; a semblance.
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  1. A similar appearance; a semblance.
  2. The state, quality, or fact of being like; resemblance.
  3. (The same) form or shape; semblance
correspondence
Communication by exchange of letters
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  1. Communication by exchange of letters
  2. ​(uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
  3. The letters received or written
coincidence
The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
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  1. The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
  2. Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
  3. A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.
affinity
A term used to describe the relationship that one has to the adopted or blood (and usually close) relatives of their spouse. For example, affinity exists between a woman and her husband’s brother.
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  1. A term used to describe the relationship that one has to the adopted or blood (and usually close) relatives of their spouse. For example, affinity exists between a woman and her husband’s brother.
  2. A relationship or resemblance in structure between species that suggests a common origin.
  3. The attractive force, of varying strength for various elements, molecules, etc., that causes the atoms of certain elements to combine and stay combined
alikeness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being alike.
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  1. (Uncountable) The state or quality of being alike.
  2. (Countable) The result or product of being alike.
analogy
(Linguistics) The process by which words or morphemes are re-formed or created on the model of existing grammatical patterns in a language, often leading to greater regularity in paradigms, as evidenced by helped replacing holp and holpen as the past tense and past participle of help on the model of verbs such as yelp, yelped, yelped.
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  1. (Linguistics) The process by which words or morphemes are re-formed or created on the model of existing grammatical patterns in a language, often leading to greater regularity in paradigms, as evidenced by helped replacing holp and holpen as the past tense and past participle of help on the model of verbs such as yelp, yelped, yelped.
  2. A comparison based on such similarity:
  3. (Biology) Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure.
comparison
A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.
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  1. A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.
  2. (Grammar) The modification or inflection of an adjective or adverb to denote the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, as in English, along with the equative degree in certain other languages, such as Irish Gaelic.
  3. A comparing or being compared; estimation of similarities and differences
correspondence
(Countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
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  1. (Countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
  2. ​(uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
  3. Similarity; analogy
likeness
The state, quality, or fact of being like; resemblance.
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  1. The state, quality, or fact of being like; resemblance.
  2. A similar appearance; a semblance.
  3. (The same) form or shape; semblance
parallelism
(Philos.) The doctrine that mind and matter function together synchronously but without any causal interaction
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  1. (Philos.) The doctrine that mind and matter function together synchronously but without any causal interaction
  2. The use of parallel structure in writing
  3. Correspondence or similarity.
similarity
The quality or condition of being similar; resemblance.
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  1. The quality or condition of being similar; resemblance.
  2. The state or quality of being similar; resemblance or likeness
  3. A point, feature, or instance in which things are similar
similitude
(Archaic) One that closely resembles another.
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  1. (Archaic) One that closely resembles another.
  2. (Countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
  3. Similarity; likeness; resemblance
uniformity
The absence of alternativism.
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  1. The absence of alternativism.
  2. State, quality, or instance of being uniform
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  • The resemblance between father and son was enough to make her stop two steps into the clearing.

  • In its structure and general arrangements it bears a general resemblance to the palace of Phaestus and Cnossus on a smaller scale.

  • The resemblance was so close that Prinsep called the alphabet he was deciphering the Pali alphabet, and the language expressed in it he called the Pali language.

  • 14-16), owed its employment to the fact that the root often divides into branches resembling the arms and legs of a man, and this resemblance gave rise to the belief that it conferred strength and virility.

  • In view of the great resemblance between Microhydra and the polyp of Limnocodium, it might be expected that the medusae to which they give origin would also be similar.

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