resemblance
pronunciation
How to pronounce resemblance in British English:
UK [rɪˈzembləns]
How to pronounce resemblance in American English:
US [rɪˈzembləns]
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- Noun:
- similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Word Origin
- resemblance (n.)
- late 14c., from Anglo-French resemblance (c. 1300), from Old French resembler (see resemble) + -ance.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The national politics is coming to bear an uncanny resemblance .
- 2. First , many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory : they 're all too subject to herd behavior , to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic .
- 3. But china 's situation bears no resemblance .
- 4. The new president may bear a striking resemblance to the departing one .
- 5. Such a war would bear little resemblance to the previous clashes between israel and its neighbours .