Associations to the word «Likeness»

Wiktionary

LIKENESS, noun. The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
LIKENESS, noun. Appearance or form; guise.
LIKENESS, noun. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
LIKENESS, verb. (archaic) (transitive) To depict.

Dictionary definition

LIKENESS, noun. Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness".
LIKENESS, noun. Picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky