similarity

English

Etymology

From French similarité.

Morphologically similar ‎ -ity

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -æɹɪti

Noun

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.

3. (geometry) A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
4. (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

Synonyms

• resemblance

Antonyms

• difference

Derived terms

• self-similarity

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-‎ (0 c, 80 e)

Translations

closeness of appearance

• Albanian: ngjashmëri (sq) f
• Arabic: تَشَابُه m (tašābuh), شَبَه (ar) m (šabah)
• Armenian: նմանություն (hy) (nmanutʻyun)
• Asturian: asemeyanza f, semeyanza f
• Azerbaijani: bənzərlik, oxşarlıq
• Belarusian: падабе́нства n (padabjénstva), падо́бнасць f (padóbnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: схо́дство (bg) n (shódstvo), подо́бие (bg) n (podóbie), при́лика (bg) f (prílika)
• Catalan: semblança f, similitud f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì), 類似／类似 (zh) (lèisì)

• Crimean Tatar: oşama, oşav, beñzme, beñzev
• Czech: podobnost (cs) f
• Danish: lighed (da) c
• Dutch: gelijkenis (nl) f
• Egyptian: (mjt)
• Esperanto: simileco
• Estonian: sarnasus, samalaadsus
• Finnish: samankaltaisuus (fi)
• French: similarité (fr) f, similitude (fr) f
• Friulian: someance f
• Galician: semellanza (gl) f, similitude (gl) f
• Georgian: მსგავსება (msgavseba)
• German: Ähnlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: ομοιότητα (el) f (omoiótita)

  Ancient: ὁμοιότης f (homoiótēs)

• Hebrew: דִּמְיוֹן (he) m (dimyón)
• Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā), समरूपता f (samrūptā)
• Hungarian: hasonlóság (hu)
• Ilocano: apiring, ariring
• Italian: similarità, somiglianza (it) f
• Japanese: 類似 (ja) (るいじ, ruiji), 類似性 (ja) (るいじせい, ruijisei), 相似 (ja) (そうじ, sōji)
• Kazakh: ұқсастық (ūqsastyq), ұқсастылық (ūqsastylyq), жанасым (janasym)
• Korean: 유사(類似) (ko) (yusa), 유사성(類似性) (ko) (yusaseong), 닮음 (ko) (dalmeum), 상사(相似) (sangsa)
• Kyrgyz: окшоштук (ky) (okşoştuk)
• Latin: similitūdō f
• Latvian: līdzība (lv) f
• Lithuanian: panašumas m
• Macedonian: сличност f (sličnost)
• Malayalam: സാമ്യം (ml) (sāmyaṁ), സാദൃശ്യം (ml) (sādr̥śyaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likhet (no) m or f

• Persian: تشابه (fa) (tašâboh), شباهت (fa) (šabâhat)
• Plautdietsch: Änlichkjeit f
• Polish: podobieństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: semelhança (pt) f, similaridade (pt) f
• Romanian: similaritate (ro) f
• Russian: схо́дство (ru) n (sxódstvo), подо́бие (ru) n (podóbije), схо́жесть (ru) f (sxóžestʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: coltas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сли̏чно̄ст f

  Roman: slȉčnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: podobnosť f
• Slovene: podobnost f
• Spanish: semejanza (es) f, similitud (es) f, (barbarism) similaridad f
• Swedish: likhet (sv) c, similaritet c
• Tagalog: pagkakahawig, wangis
• Tajik: шабоҳат (tg) (šabohat), монандӣ (tg) (monandi)
• Telugu: సారూప్యత (te) (sārūpyata), ఒకే పోలిక (okē pōlika)
• Turkish: benzerlik (tr)
• Ukrainian: схо́жість f (sxóžistʹ), поді́бність f (podíbnistʹ)
• Urdu: شباﮩت f (śabāhat), مشابہت f (muśābahat)
• Uyghur: ئوخشاشلىق (oxshashliq)
• Uzbek: oʻxshashlik (uz)
• Venetian: somejansa f
• Vietnamese: sự giống nhau, sự tương tự (vi), sự đồng dạng (vi)
• West Frisian: likenis
• Yiddish: ענלעכקייט f (enlekhkeyt)

See also

• likeness
• alikeness