Dissimilitude

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissimilitude \Dis`si*mil"i*tude\, n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr.
     dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.]
     1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
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              Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images.


                                                    --Stillingfleet.
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     2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissimilitude
       n : dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness [syn: {unlikeness}]
           [ant: {likeness}, {likeness}]