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Dissimilitude   Listen
noun
Dissimilitude  n.  
1.
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. "Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images."
2.
(Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.





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"Dissimilitude" Quotes from Famous Books



... side they apparently differ, yet it is impossible to mark the point of contact. Ideas of the same race, though not exactly alike, are sometimes so little different, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily perceives it, when they are exhibited together; and sometimes there is such a confusion of acceptations, that discernment is wearied, and distinction puzzled, and perseverance herself hurries to an end, by crouding together ...
— Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language • Samuel Johnson


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