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similarity

  • /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/ UK
  • /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ UK
  • /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ UK
  • /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ Canada, US
  • [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi] Canada, US
  • /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/ Canada, US
  • [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi] Canada, US
  • /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/ Canada, US
  • [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ɾi] Canada, US
  • /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/ Australia
  • [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi] Australia
  • /ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/ New Zealand
  • [ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi] New Zealand

Rhymes with -æɹɪti

Where it comes from

From French similarité. Morphologically similar + -ity

noun similarities

  1. countable, uncountable Closeness of appearance to something else.
  2. countable, uncountable The relation of sharing properties. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.
  3. countable, uncountable A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
  4. countable, uncountable The property of two matrices being similar.

Similar: resemblance, likeness, semblance, similitude, similarity

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