likeness

[ lahyk-nis ]

noun

1. a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait:

   to draw a good likeness of Churchill.

2. the state or fact of being like:

   I can't get over your likeness to my friend.

   Synonyms: similitude, resemblance

3. the semblance or appearance of something; guise:

   to assume the likeness of a swan.

   Synonyms: form, shape

likeness

/ ˈlaɪknɪs /

noun

1. the condition of being alike; similarity
2. a painted, carved, moulded, or graphic image of a person or thing
3. an imitative appearance; semblance

Word History and Origins

Origin of likeness¹

before 950; Middle English liknesse, Old English līcnes, variant of gelīcnes. See alike, -ness

Example Sentences

Geoff Keighley is also now a cosmetic in the game, with a new mask based on his likeness.

From Washington Post

The athletic department also believes showcasing these stories can benefit athletes as the NCAA moves toward allowing college athletes to benefit from their names, images and likenesses.

From Washington Post

The NCAA seems to be in the process of changing its rules about athletes using their “name, image, and likeness” for financial gain.

From Outside Online

Your likeness doesn’t make it into the final production, but the result still has your signature and interpretation.

From MIT Technology Review

In case you’re not familiar with this wicked byproduct of AI progress, “deepfakes” refers to audio or visual files made using artificial intelligence that can manipulate peoples’ voices or likenesses to make it look like they said things they didn’t.

From Singularity Hub 

If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there?

From The Daily Beast

Now, her likeness stars in a “Consume Responsibly” billboard.

From The Daily Beast

His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store.

From The Daily Beast

She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter.

From The Daily Beast

Other demonstrators held up photos of Martin Luther King, Jr.—some wore masks of his likeness, too—and Frederick Douglas.

From The Daily Beast

The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.

From Project Gutenberg

In the splendid woman that entered, Monsieur de Garnache saw a wonderful likeness to the boy who stood beside him.

From Project Gutenberg

In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.

From Project Gutenberg

We notice that more attention is given to the problem of placing a feature than to that of making a likeness of it.

From Project Gutenberg

On inspection it was certainly a monstrous production, but it did present an ugly likeness of the coalheaver.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• depiction
• effigy
• facsimile
• image
• photograph
• portrait
• replica
• reproduction