likeness

likeness
n
1. image, icon, representation, simulacrum; portrait, portrayal, painting, oil painting, canvas, watercolor; sketch, delineation, rough draft, drawing, charcoal drawing, study; picture, illustration, photograph, Inf. photo, snapshot, Inf. snap; effigy, straw man, scarecrow, doll, figure, figurine, sculpture, statue, statuette, bust, bronze, clay model.
2. replica, copy, duplicate, facsimile, faithful copy, reproduction, ectype, print; twin, identical twin, living or very image, double, look-alike, clone, exact match; perfect likeness, Inf. spit and image or spitting image, chip off the old block, Sl. ringer, Sl. dead ringer.
3. guise, semblance, resemblance, appearance, look; exterior, outward form, shape, figure, lines, features; style, ways, manners or mannerisms, characteristics, traits; mien, air, cast, character, presence, bearing, carriage.
4. resemblance, similarity, similitude, identicalness, identity; analogy, analogousness, agreement, parallelism, correspondence, alikeness, closeness; sameness, uniformity, homogeneity.

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