Similitude

Quick meaning: Similitude is a noun meaning (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.

Meaning

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
2. (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
3. A parable or allegory.
4. (countable, geometry) A similarity: a transformation of Euclidean space that preserves angles and the ratios of distances.

Example Sentences

Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes, sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].

If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.

So am I tossed on the ebbing tide of life—now in sunshine, now in shade—seemingly free, yet, in reality, fettered by the strong, though slight chain of circumstance. For a small sum, any passenger may enter that boat and direct its course; and here again is similitude. I am at the beck of others.

Word Forms

• similitudes

Synonyms for similitude

Depending on context, synonyms include counterpart, twin, likeness, alikeness.

Antonyms for similitude

Common opposites include dissimilitude, unlikeness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include likeness, alikeness, counterpart, twin, simility, resemblance.

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