resemblance

1. 1.

   similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

   Broaderlikeness

   Narrowermutual resemblanceaffinity

Other forms of resemblance

plural

resemblances·

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 resemblance

What does resemblance mean?

resemblance means "similarity in appearance or external or superficial details".

How many syllables are in resemblance?

resemblance has 3 syllables: re-sem-blance. The stress falls on "sem". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈzɛmbləns/.

Is resemblance a common word?

resemblance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.