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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats