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Word Meanings - UNLIKENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity. Tennyson.

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  • DISCORDABLE
    That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
  • CONTRARIETY
    1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
  • VARIETY SHOW
    A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
  • DISSENTIVE
    Disagreeing; inconsistent. Feltham.
  • DISSENTIATE
    To throw into a state of dissent. Feltham.
  • DISTINCTION
    1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
  • DISSENTIOUS
    Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.
  • DIFFERENCE
    An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
  • DISCORDOUS
    Full of discord.
  • DISCORDANCE; DISCORDANCY
    State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.
  • DISSENTERISM
    The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.
  • DESTRUCTIONIST
    One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
  • DISSENTATION
    Dissension. W. Browne.
  • DISCORDANT
    discordant, F. discordant, p. pr. of discorder, OF. also, descorder. 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce.
  • DISSIMILARITY
    Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilitude; variety; as, the dissimilarity of human faces and forms. Sir W. Jones.
  • DISSENTIENT
    Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.
  • DISCORD
    Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
  • DESTRUCTION
    1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
  • DISSENTER
    One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert
  • ESTRANGEMENT
    The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.
  • INDISTINCTION
    Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
  • SELF-DESTRUCTION
    The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
  • CONTRADISTINCTION
    Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
  • SUBVARIETY
    A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.

 

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