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Meaning of similarity in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    similarity

    Definitions

    1. the quality of being similar

    Antonyms

    • dissimilarity
    • unsimilarity
  2. 2. a Getalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit

Famous quotes

  • « Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. »
    Emil Ludwig
  • « Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. »
    Theodor Adorno
  • « And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. »
    Juan Goytisolo
  • « It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world. »
    Artie Lange
  • « Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. »
    Miriam Beard

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