Likeness

Like"ness, n. [AS. gelīcnes.] 1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

2. Appearance or form; guise.

An enemy in the likeness of a friend.

L'Estrange.

3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.

[How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

Macaulay.

4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]

He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself.

Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).

Syn. -- Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.