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From French similarité. Morphologically similar +‎ -ity

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ɪ.ti/, /ˌsɪm.ɪˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi], /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi], /ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlɛɹ.ɾi]
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsɪm.əˈlæɹ.ə.ɾi]
• (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ti/, [ˌsəm.əˈlɛɹ.ə.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -æɹɪti

similarity (countable and uncountable, plural similarities)

1. Closeness of appearance to something else.
2. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
3. (geometry) A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
4. (mathematics, linear algebra) The property of two matrices being similar.

• resemblance

• difference

• antisimilarity

• autosimilarity

• biosimilarity

• bisimilarity

• dissimilarity

• haplosimilarity

• nonsimilarity

• self-similarity

closeness of appearance — see also similitude

• 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), yhtäläisyys (fi)

• French: similarité (fr) f, similitude (fr) f

• Frisian:
  West Frisian: likenis

• Friulian: someance f

• Galician: semellanza (gl) f, similitude (gl) f

• Georgian: მსგავსება (msgavseba)

• German: Ähnlichkeit (de) f

• Greek: ομοιότητα (el) f (omoiótita)
  Ancient Greek: ὁμοιότης f (homoiótēs)

• Hebrew: דִּמְיוֹן (he) m (dimyón)

• Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā), समरूपता (hi) f (samrūptā)

• Hungarian: hasonlóság (hu)

• Ilocano: apiring, ariring

• Italian: similarità (it), 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
  Latin: slȉčnōst (sh) f

• Slovak: podobnosť f

• Slovene: podobnost f

• Spanish: semejanza (es) f, 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)

• Thai: ความคล้าย (th), ความเหมือน (th)

• 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)

• Yiddish: ענלעכקייט f (enlekhkeyt)

• likeness

• alikeness