similarity

From French similarité.

Morphologically similar +‎ -ity

• IPA^(key): /sɪmɪˈlæɹɪti/

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• Rhymes: -æɹɪti

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, 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. (mathematics) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
4. (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

• resemblance

• difference

• likeness
• alikeness