Roget's Thesaurus#18. DissimilarityNounsdissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variation.; difference etc. 15; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy. Verbsbe unlike etc. adj.; vary etc. (differ) 15; bear no resemblance to, differ toto coelo [Lat.]. render unlike etc. adj.; vary etc. (diversify) 140. Adjectivesdissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; etc. (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented etc. 83; original. nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid [Lat.], as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.]. diversified etc. 16a. Adverbsotherwise. Phrasesdiis aliter visum [Lat.]; no more like my father than I to Hercules [Hamlet]. |