English Dictionary

similitude

IPA（発音記号）

/sɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else. / (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.

日本語の意味

（数えられない用法）他の何かに似ている性質、類似性、似通った状態 / （数えられる用法）2つ以上のものが共有する類似点、共通の性質

The artist highlighted the uncanny similitude between the two portraits, suggesting they might have been painted by the same hand.

その芸術家は二つの肖像画の間にある不気味な類似性を強調し、それらが同じ画家によって描かれた可能性があることを示唆した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.

So am I tossed on the ebbing tide of life—now in sunshine, now in shade—seemingly free, yet, in reality, fettered by the strong, though slight chain of circumstance. For a small sum, any passenger may enter that boat and direct its course; and here again is similitude. I am at the beck of others.

意味（2）

(countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.

Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

意味（3）

(countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.

If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.

意味（4）

A parable or allegory.

And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes, sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side ….

similitudes （ plural ）