a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
the state or fact of being like: I can't get over your likeness to my friend.
the semblance or appearance of something; guise: to assume the likeness of a swan.
Origin of likeness
before 950; Middle English liknesse,Old English līcnes, variant of gelīcnes.See alike, -ness
SYNONYMS FOR likeness
2 resemblance, similitude.
3 shape, form.
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Words nearby likeness
likely, likely as not, like mad, like-minded, liken, likeness, like nobody's business, like nothing on earth, like pigs in clover, like pulling teeth, like rolling off a log
Your likeness doesn’t make it into the final production, but the result still has your signature and interpretation.
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor|Karen Hao|October 9, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In case you’re not familiar with this wicked byproduct of AI progress, “deepfakes” refers to audio or visual files made using artificial intelligence that can manipulate peoples’ voices or likenesses to make it look like they said things they didn’t.
Microsoft’s New Deepfake Detector Puts Reality to the Test|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|September 4, 2020|Singularity Hub
If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there?
Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas Card|Abby Haglage|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Now, her likeness stars in a “Consume Responsibly” billboard.
Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas Card|Abby Haglage|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store.
The Seedy Side of Sainthood: Was John Paul II Canonized Too Fast?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter.
Alphonza Bryant, the Slain Bronx Teen Who Did Everything Right|Michael Daly|May 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Other demonstrators held up photos of Martin Luther King, Jr.—some wore masks of his likeness, too—and Frederick Douglas.
"Obama, Come Here To Hebron"|Ali Gharib|March 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is generally a gross approximation of the conception of the Infinite Being to the likeness of man.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance|John Foster
Love is the ladder by which we climb up to the likeness of God.
Leaves of Life|Margaret Bird Steinmetz
There is but one way to press into the depths of the knowledge of God—namely growth into His likeness.
The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon|Alexander Maclaren
"It may hae been something waur, in his likeness," said Dame Glendinning.
The Monastery|Sir Walter Scott
The apparition or whatever it was that had taken the likeness of G—had disappeared.
Indian Ghost Stories|S. Mukerji
British Dictionary definitions for likeness
likeness
/ (ˈlaɪknɪs) /
noun
the condition of being alike; similarity
a painted, carved, moulded, or graphic image of a person or thing