Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - likeness

 noun  Date: before 12th century  1. copy, portrait  2. appearance, semblance  3. the quality or state of being like ; resemblance Synonyms:  ~, similarity, resemblance, similitude, analogy mean agreement or correspondence in details. ~ implies a closer correspondence than similarity which often implies that things are merely somewhat alike a remarkable ~ to his late father some similarity between the two cases. resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities statements that bear little resemblance to the truth. similitude applies chiefly to correspondence between abstractions two schools of social thought showing points of similitude. analogy implies ~ or parallelism in relations rather than in appearance or qualities pointed out analogies to past wars.