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dissimilitude

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dis-simil-i-tude
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The quality of being dissimilar or different; lack of resemblance.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English dissimilitude, from Latin dissimilitūdō, from dissimilis (“unlike”). By surface analysis, dissimilar + -itude or dis- + similitude.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: dissimilitude, dissimilitūdō

Usage

Inflected Forms

dissimilitudes (plural)

Synonyms

dissimilarity nonresemblance unlikeness

Antonyms

similitude similarity likeness sameness

Questions

What does dissimilitude mean?
The quality of being dissimilar or different; lack of resemblance.
Where does dissimilitude come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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