similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things
<noun.attribute> man created God in his own likeness
a duplicate copy
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Similitude \Si*mil"i*tude\, n. [F. similitude, L. similitudo, from similis similar. See {Similar}.] 1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. --Chaucer.
Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. --Milton.
If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of griefs to mine. --Pope.
2. The act of likening, or that which likens, one thing to another; fanciful or imaginative comparison; a simile.
Tasso, in his similitudes, never departed from the woods; that is, all his comparisons were taken from the country. --Dryden.
3. That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile.