Unlikeness

Definition: Unlikeness

Unlikeness

Noun

1. Dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness.

Date "unlikeness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonym: Unlikeness

Synonym: dissimilitude (n). (additional references)

Antonym: likeness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unlikeness

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dissimilarity	Noun: dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variatioNoun: difference; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unlikeness

English words defined with "unlikeness": Disformity, Dislikeness ♦ Nonresemblance. (references)

Etymologies containing "unlikeness": Dislikeness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unlikeness

Domain	Title
Books	Likeness and Unlikeness (reference) Region of Unlikeness (American Poetry Series) (reference) The Literature of Unlikeness (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unlikeness

"Unlikeness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlikeness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unlikeness

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unlikeness	9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unlikeness

Language		Translations for "unlikeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		ανομοιότησ (spottiness), ανομοιότητα (disparity, spottiness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ikenessunlay

Russian		несходство (dissimilarity, dissimilitude, diversity). (various references)

Welsh		annhebygrwydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unlikeness

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unlikeness": unlikenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unlikeness"

Words rhyming with "unlikeness" (pronounced 'Un*like"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Unlikeness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-l-n-n-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: likeness.
	-3 letters: enisles, ensiles, enskies, ileuses, inkless, innless, kennels, kineses, nunlike, seniles, silenus, sulkies, sunlike, unlinks.
	-4 letters: enisle, ennuis, ensile, ensues, inkles, kennel, kneels, lenses, lessen, likens, linens, lunies, seines, senile, silken, skeens, skeins, skenes, sleeks, slinks, sunken, suslik, unless, unlike, unlink, unseen.
	-5 letters: ennui, ensue, ileus, inkle, isles, issue, keels, keens, kilns, kines.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-k-l-n-n-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: unlikeliness, unlikenesses.
	+3 letters: unluckinesses.
	+4 letters: unbusinesslike, unkindlinesses, unlikelinesses.
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