likeness
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likeness
- /ˈlaɪknəs/
Where it comes from
From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like + -ness.
Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
noun likenesses
- The state or quality of being like or alike. I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.
- Appearance or form; guise. A foe in the likeness of a friend
- That which closely resembles; a portrait. How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Similar: similarity
verb likenesses · likenessing · likenessed
- To depict. I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
