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noun

similarity

CEFR B1

the quality of being similar

In a sentence

Six example sentences with similarity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Curators noticed a similarity between the two panels, from the cracked blue pigment to the odd length of the fingers.

    Art

  • Jurors overrate any similarity between a suspect and their mental image, which is why lineups are built so carefully.

    Psychology

  • The plagiarism tool scores similarity between two files and flags anything above eighty percent for a human to read.

    Technology

  • The similarity between the two choruses was obvious to anyone who hummed them back to back.

    Music

  • The similarity between bat wings and human hands, bone for bone, was one of Darwin's favorite arguments.

    Science

  • Hume argued that we infer causes only from similarity between past cases and the present one, never from logic.

    Philosophy

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