Likeness Definition

līknĭs
likenesses
noun
likenesses
The state or quality of being like; similarity.
Webster's New World
(the same) Form or shape; semblance.
Zeus appeared in the likeness of a swan.
Webster's New World
Something that is like; copy, portrait, etc.
Webster's New World
A pictorial, graphic, or sculptured representation of something; an image.
American Heritage

That which closely resembles; a portrait.

How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Wiktionary
verb

(archaic) To depict.

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Other Word Forms of Likeness

Noun

Singular:
likeness
Plural:
likenesses

Origin of Likeness

  • like +"Ž -ness; from Old English licnes, a shortening of gelicness. The verb is derived from the noun.

    From Wiktionary

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