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Dissimilarity

Noun CEFR C1
dɪˌsɪmɪˈlæɹɪti

Definitions

A lack of similarity or a lack of likeness in appearance to something else.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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Examples

“The experiment⟳ was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force⟳ of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow⟳, but with the dissimilarity that it did not melt⟳.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Dissimilarly dissimilarness dissimilation dissimilator dissimile dissimilitude

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