Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dissimilitude"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Dissimilitude \Dis`si*mil"i*tude\, n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr.
dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.]
1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images.
--Stillingfleet.

2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

dissimilitude
n : dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness [syn: {unlikeness}]
[ant: {likeness}, {likeness}]


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