similarity

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Etymology

From French similarité. Morphologically similar +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi], /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ɾi]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -æɹɪti

Noun

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

3. (geometry) A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
4. (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

Synonyms

• resemblance

Antonyms

• difference

Derived terms

• self-similarity

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem- (0 c, 83 e)

Translations

closeness of appearance

Albanian: ngjashmëri (sq) f Arabic: تَشَابُه m (tašābuh), شَبَه (ar) m (šabah) Armenian: նմանություն (hy) (nmanutʻyun) Asturian: asemeyanza f, semeyanza f Azerbaijani: bənzərlik, oxşarlıq Belarusian: падабе́нства n (padabjénstva), падо́бнасць f (padóbnascʹ) Bulgarian: схо́дство (bg) n (shódstvo), подо́бие (bg) n (podóbie), при́лика (bg) f (prílika) Catalan: semblança f, similitud f Chinese: Mandarin: 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì), 類似 / 类似 (zh) (lèisì) Crimean Tatar: oşama, oşav, beñzme, beñzev Czech: podobnost (cs) f Danish: lighed (da) c Dutch: gelijkenis (nl) f Egyptian: (mjt) Esperanto: simileco Estonian: sarnasus, samalaadsus Finnish: samankaltaisuus (fi) French: similarité (fr) f, similitude (fr) f Friulian: someance f Galician: semellanza (gl) f, similitude (gl) f Georgian: მსგავსება (msgavseba) German: Ähnlichkeit (de) f Greek: ομοιότητα (el) f (omoiótita) Ancient: ὁμοιότης f (homoiótēs) Hebrew: דִּמְיוֹן (he) m (dimyón) Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā), समरूपता f (samrūptā) Hungarian: hasonlóság (hu) Ilocano: apiring, ariring Italian: similarità, somiglianza (it) f Japanese: 類似 (ja) (るいじ, ruiji), 類似性 (ja) (るいじせい, ruijisei), 相似 (ja) (そうじ, sōji) Kazakh: ұқсастық (ūqsastyq), ұқсастылық (ūqsastylyq), жанасым (janasym) Korean: 유사(類似) (ko) (yusa), 유사성(類似性) (ko) (yusaseong), 닮음 (ko) (dalmeum), 상사(相似) (sangsa) Kyrgyz: окшоштук (ky) (okşoştuk) Latin: similitūdō f Latvian: līdzība (lv) f Lithuanian: panašumas m Macedonian: сличност f (sličnost) Malayalam: സാമ്യം (ml) (sāmyaṁ), സാദൃശ്യം (ml) (sādr̥śyaṁ) Norwegian: Bokmål: likhet (no) m or f Persian: تشابه (fa) (tašâboh), شباهت (fa) (šabâhat) Plautdietsch: Änlichkjeit f Polish: podobieństwo (pl) n Portuguese: semelhança (pt) f, similaridade (pt) f Romanian: similaritate (ro) f Russian: схо́дство (ru) n (sxódstvo), подо́бие (ru) n (podóbije), схо́жесть (ru) f (sxóžestʹ) Scottish Gaelic: coltas m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сли̏чно̄ст f Roman: slȉčnōst (sh) f Slovak: podobnosť f Slovene: podobnost f Spanish: semejanza (es) f, similitud (es) f, (barbarism) similaridad f Swedish: likhet (sv) c, similaritet c Tagalog: pagkakahawig, wangis Tajik: шабоҳат (tg) (šabohat), монандӣ (tg) (monandi) Telugu: సారూప్యత (te) (sārūpyata), ఒకే పోలిక (okē pōlika) Thai: ความคล้าย (th), ความเหมือน (th) Turkish: benzerlik (tr) Ukrainian: схо́жість f (sxóžistʹ), поді́бність f (podíbnistʹ) Urdu: شباﮩت f (śabāhat), مشابہت f (muśābahat) Uyghur: ئوخشاشلىق (oxshashliq) Uzbek: oʻxshashlik (uz) Venetan: somejansa f Vietnamese: sự giống nhau, sự tương tự (vi), sự đồng dạng (vi) West Frisian: likenis Yiddish: ענלעכקייט f (enlekhkeyt)

See also

• likeness
• alikeness