dissimilitude

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

noun

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

dissimilitude

/ ˌdɪsɪˈmɪlɪˌtjuːd /

noun

1. dissimilarity; difference
2. a point of difference

Word History and Origins

Origin of dissimilitude¹

1525–35; < Latin dissimilitūdō, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + similitūdō similitude

Example Sentences

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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