Want of resemblance. [Little used.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Want of resemblance; dissimilitude.
2. The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation.
Dissimilarity Roget’s Thesaurus §18
N. dissimilarity, dissimilaritude, unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance, divergence, variation, difference, novelty, originality, creativeness, oogamy
V. be unlike, vary, bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo, render unlike, vary
Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate, divergent, of a different kind unmatched, unique, new, novel, unprecedented, original, nothing of the kind, no such thing, quite another thing, far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale", as different as chalk from cheese, as different as macedon and monmouth, lucus a non lucendo, diversified
Adv. otherwise
Phr. diis aliter visum, "no more like my father than i to hercules"
No Bible verses found for "dissemblance".