likeness

ressemblance

Points communs dans l’apparence ou les qualités de deux personnes ou choses.

En anglais simple : The way two people or things look alike or share similar qualities.

• There is a family likeness.
• His likeness to his grandfather surprised us.
• Did you notice the likeness between their voices?

Comment l'utiliser : likeness to someone/something (Her likeness to her mother is remarkable.); likeness between A and B (There is a strong likeness between the two designs.)

Synonymes : similarity, resemblance

Contraires : difference, dissimilarity

Expressions courantes : striking likeness, family likeness, likeness to someone

portrait, représentation

Image ou modèle réalisé pour montrer l’apparence d’une personne ou d’une chose.

En anglais simple : A picture or model made to show what a person or thing looks like.

• The drawing is a good likeness.
• She painted a likeness of her grandmother.
• The museum displays several likenesses of the king.

Comment l'utiliser : likeness of someone/something (The artist made a bronze likeness of the singer.)

Synonymes : portrait, representation, image

Expressions courantes : good likeness, likeness of someone, paint a likeness, faithful likeness

apparence, forme

L’aspect ou la forme d’une personne ou d’une chose.

En anglais simple : The appearance or shape of someone or something.

• The creature appeared in human likeness.
• The statue was shaped in the likeness of a bird.
• In the story, a god takes the likeness of an old man.

Comment l'utiliser : in the likeness of someone/something (The spirit appeared in the likeness of a child.)

Synonymes : form, appearance, guise

Expressions courantes : in human likeness, in the likeness, take someone’s likeness