# similarity
## English
### Etymology

From French similarité.
Morphologically similar +‎ -ity

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/
** Audio (New Mexico):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi]
* Rhymes: -æɹɪti

### Noun

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)
* Closeness of appearance to something else.
* (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
** 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.
* (geometry) A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
* (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

#### Synonyms

* resemblance

#### Antonyms

* difference

#### Derived terms

* self-similarity

#### Translations

Albanian: ngjashmëri (sq) f
Arabic: تَشَابُه m (tašābuh), شَبَه (ar) m (šabah)
Armenian: նմանություն (hy) (nmanutʻyun)
Asturian: asemeyanza f, semeyanza f
Azerbaijani: bənzərlik, oxşarlıq
Belarusian: падабе́нства n (padabjénstva), падо́бнасць f (padóbnascʹ)
Bulgarian: схо́дство (bg) n (shódstvo), подо́бие (bg) n (podóbie), при́лика (bg) f (prílika)
Catalan: semblança f, similitud f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì), 類似／类似 (zh) (lèisì)
Crimean Tatar: oşama, oşav, beñzme, beñzev
Czech: podobnost (cs) f
Danish: lighed (da) c
Dutch: gelijkenis (nl) f
Egyptian: (mjt)
Esperanto: simileco
Estonian: sarnasus, samalaadsus
Finnish: samankaltaisuus (fi)
French: similarité (fr) f, similitude (fr) f
Friulian: someance f
Galician: semellanza (gl) f, similitude (gl) f
Georgian: მსგავსება (msgavseba)
German: Ähnlichkeit (de) f
Greek: ομοιότητα (el) f (omoiótita)
Ancient: ὁμοιότης f (homoiótēs)
Hebrew: דִּמְיוֹן (he) m (dimyón)
Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā), समरूपता f (samrūptā)
Hungarian: hasonlóság (hu)
Ilocano: apiring, ariring
Italian: similarità, somiglianza (it) f
Japanese: 類似 (ja) (るいじ, ruiji), 類似性 (ja) (るいじせい, ruijisei), 相似 (ja) (そうじ, sōji)
Kazakh: ұқсастық (ūqsastyq), ұқсастылық (ūqsastylyq), жанасым (janasym)
Korean: 유사(類似) (ko) (yusa), 유사성(類似性) (ko) (yusaseong), 닮음 (ko) (dalmeum), 상사(相似) (sangsa)
Kyrgyz: окшоштук (ky) (okşoştuk)
Latin: similitūdō f
Latvian: līdzība (lv) f
Lithuanian: panašumas m
Macedonian: сличност f (sličnost)
Malayalam: സാമ്യം (ml) (sāmyaṁ), സാദൃശ്യം (ml) (sādr̥śyaṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: likhet (no) m or f
Persian: تشابه (fa) (tašâboh), شباهت (fa) (šabâhat)
Plautdietsch: Änlichkjeit f
Polish: podobieństwo (pl) n
Portuguese: semelhança (pt) f, similaridade (pt) f
Romanian: similaritate (ro) f
Russian: схо́дство (ru) n (sxódstvo), подо́бие (ru) n (podóbije), схо́жесть (ru) f (sxóžestʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: coltas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сли̏чно̄ст f
Roman: slȉčnōst (sh) f
Slovak: podobnosť f
Slovene: podobnost f
Spanish: semejanza (es) f, similitud (es) f, (barbarism) similaridad f
Swedish: likhet (sv) c, similaritet c
Tagalog: pagkakahawig, wangis
Tajik: шабоҳат (tg) (šabohat), монандӣ (tg) (monandi)
Telugu: సారూప్యత (te) (sārūpyata), ఒకే పోలిక (okē pōlika)
Turkish: benzerlik (tr)
Ukrainian: схо́жість f (sxóžistʹ), поді́бність f (podíbnistʹ)
Urdu: شباﮩت f (śabāhat), مشابہت f (muśābahat)
Uyghur: ئوخشاشلىق (oxshashliq)
Uzbek: oʻxshashlik (uz)
Venetan: somejansa f
Vietnamese: sự giống nhau, sự tương tự (vi), sự đồng dạng (vi)
West Frisian: likenis
Yiddish: ענלעכקייט f (enlekhkeyt) :

### See also

* likeness
* alikeness