family resemblance
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.59 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
noun
One of a series of overlapping similarities between two or more comparanda.
Example Sentences
- "What does it mean to be part of the racial majority, and how have different social groups achieved that? Whiteness studies wanted to know. This was a significant shift of the theoretical and empirical gaze, from the subordinate to the dominant, from the minority to the majority, and it shared a family resemblance to the contemporaneous shift in women's studies from studying women to studying men and masculinities."
Inflected Forms
family resemblances (plural)