| Concept: | [more]. [Absence or want of uniformity.] Nonuniformity. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
nonuniformity, diversity, irregularity, unevenness; multiformity; unconformity; roughness; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence.
-adjectives
diversified, varied, irregular, uneven, rough; multifarious; multiform; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of.
-adverbs
variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.
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Antonyms: |
uniformity |
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| Main Entry: | dissimilarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unlikeness |
Synonyms: |
alterity, contrast, difference, discord, discordance, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversity, heterogeneity, incomparability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, nonuniformity, offset, otherness, separation, severance, unrelatedness, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
compatibility, equality, likeness, relatedness, sameness, similarity |
| Concept: | Dissimilarity. |
| Category: | 3. PARTIAL RELATION |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variation; difference; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy.
-verbs
be unlike; vary (differ); bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo., render unlike; vary (diversify).
-adjectives
dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind (class); unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original., nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very like a whale " [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo., diversified.
-adverbs
otherwise.
-phrases
diis aliter visum; " no more like my father than I to Hercules" [Hamlet].
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Antonyms: |
similarity |
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