Definitions for: Resemblance


[n] similarity in appearance or external or superficial details



Webster (1913) Definition: Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance.
See Resemble.]
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude;
similarity.

One main end of poetry and painting is to please;
they bear a great resemblance to each other.
--Dryden.

2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a
likeness.

These sensible things, which religion hath allowed,
are resemblances formed according to things
spiritual. --Hooker.

3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance;
representation; image.

See Also: affinity, alikeness, likeness, mutual resemblance, similitude

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