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Thesaurus > Abstract relations > Relation > Partial relation

17. Similarity

Nouns

• similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement etc. S23; analogy, analogicalness [obs3]; correspondence, homoiousia [obs3], parity.
• connaturalness [obs3], connaturality [obs3]; brotherhood, family likeness.
• alliteration, rhyme, pun.
• repetition etc. S104; sameness etc. (identity) S13; uniformity etc. S16; isogamy [obs3].
• 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 [Lat], Arcades ambo [obs3], birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne [Lat]; gens de meme famille [Fr].
• parallel; simile; type etc. (metaphor) S521; image etc. (representation) S554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.

Verbs

• be similar etc. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate etc. S19; favor, span [U. S.].
• render similar etc. adj.; assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize [obs3], make alike; rhyme, pun.

Adjectives

• similar; resembling etc. v.; like, alike; twin.
• analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece [Fr]; such as, so; homoiousian [obs3].
• connatural [obs3], congener, allied to; akin to etc. (consanguineous) S1 S1.
• approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
• exact etc. (true) S494; 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 [Fr]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium [Lat], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.

Adverbs

• as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum [Lat].

Phrases

• et sic de similibus [Lat]; tel maitre tel valet [Fr]; tel pere tel fils [Fr]; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block