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DISSIMILARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being dissimilar
Synonyms:
dissimilarity; unsimilarity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("dissimilarity" is a kind of...):
difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissimilarity"):
disparateness; distinctiveness (utter dissimilarity)
heterology ((biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts)
dissimilitude; unlikeness (dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness)
nonuniformity (the quality of being diverse and interesting)
Antonym:
similarity (the quality of being similar)
Derivation:
dissimilar (not alike or similar)
dissimilar (not similar)
