similarities
- 1Plural of similarity.
The detective noted several striking similarities between the two crime scenes.
Despite their different origins, the languages share unexpected similarities in grammar.
Note
The plural picks out the countable side of similarity: not resemblance in general but separate points of it, the kind you can list or count. Similarity itself works both ways, so a general likeness stays uncountable (there is some similarity in tone), while discrete shared features become similarities. In geometry the plural names transformations, maps that preserve angles and ratios of distances, so similarities there are operations rather than resemblances.
similarities is a form of similarity
similarity, noun: The quality of looking very much like something else. Full entry
- Forms
- similaritysimilarities plural
- Spelling
- similarity → similarities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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