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Unlikeness

Unlikeness \Un*like"ness\, n. The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity.
--Tennyson.

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unlikeness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state of being unlike 2 (context countable English) an unlike characteristic

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unlikeness

n. dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness [syn: dissimilitude] [ant: likeness, likeness]

Usage examples of "unlikeness".

A begetter begets a thing like to itself in species, yet there is some unlikeness as to the accidents, owing either to the matter, or to weakness within the generative power.

Studies revealed unlikenesses in mass, axial inclination, rotation period, precise atmospheric composition, spectra and therefore composition of vegetable life — on and on, a catalogue that was never completed.

She was akin to Envoy in her general plan — seen across fifty kilometers, the unlikenesses were few, the most obvious a proportionately larger hull — but of more than twice the linear dimensions, ten times the burden.

Yes, hardly: to one of the halfworld, the outward unlikenesses were little, set beside the blazing identity.