Associations to the word «Similarity»

Wiktionary

SIMILARITY, noun. Closeness of appearance to something else.
SIMILARITY, noun. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.

Dictionary definition

SIMILARITY, noun. The quality of being similar.
SIMILARITY, noun. A Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit.

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