alikeness

Other forms of alikeness

plural

alikenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alikeness

What does alikeness mean?

alikeness means "similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things".

How many syllables are in alikeness?

alikeness has 4 syllables: a-li-ke-ness. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for alikeness?

Close synonyms include likeness, similitude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alikeness a common word?

alikeness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.