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dissimilitude

[ dis-si-mil-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

  1. unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
  2. a point of difference; dissimilarity.


dissimilitude

/ ËŒ»åɪ²õɪˈ³¾Éª±ôɪˌ³ÙÂá³ÜË»å /

noun

  1. dissimilarity; difference
  2. a point of difference
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dissimilitude1

1525–35; < Latin »å¾±²õ²õ¾±³¾¾±±ô¾±³ÙÅ«»åÅ, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + ²õ¾±³¾¾±±ô¾±³ÙÅ«»åÅ similitude
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The boxes were as like to one another as peas, but Wogan discovered a great dissimilitude of defects.

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We cannot perhaps give a better notion of their dissimilitude, than by saying that one school produced Chaucer, and the other Petrarch.

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"But need our dissimilitudes sever—may they not be made rather ties to bind us more closely together," said he, tenderly.

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The dissimilitude of Sumatra and Java, separated by only a narrow channel, occurs to us, as well as that of Madagascar, but narrowly divided from the neighboring continent.

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In the countenances of the three castaways thus introduced, I have admitted a dissimilitude something more than casual,—something more, even, than what might be termed provincial.

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