How do you use Similarity in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like sameness or dissimilarity, plus the exact meaning.
Similarity in a sentence
Similarity meaning
- Closeness of appearance to something else.
- The relation of sharing properties.
- A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
Synonyms of Similarity
Using Similarity
- The main meaning on this page is: Closeness of appearance to something else. | The relation of sharing properties. | A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
- Useful related words include: sameness, dissimilarity, law of similarity.
- In the example corpus, similarity often appears in combinations such as: the similarity, similarity to, similarity between.
Context around Similarity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Similarity
- In this selection, "similarity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, self, phonetic, color, self and owners stand out and add context to how "similarity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an infringing similarity to disney and and another similarity is in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "similarity" sits close to words such as aces, adapting and baltic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with similarity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, another similarity is at play. (6 words)
And another similarity is in the works. (7 words)
Because there are things in which the similarity is evident. (10 words)
This means that the similarity of our thoughts and the continuity of them in this similarity do not mean that we can identify ourselves as a self but that our thoughts are similar. (33 words)
But this wasn't the only similarity owners found between sport and business, with teamwork, leadership and management, overcoming setbacks and clear end-goals other examples of the synergy between the two. (32 words)
Another challenge for the legislators would be how to define the Nazi salute because of its similarity to other innocuous gestures where people raise their arms in the air, he said. (31 words)
In Mexico, Pato Pascual, a cartoon duck bearing an infringing similarity to Disney’s star fowl, Donald, advertises Boing! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
For example, in Chinese, a pun may be based on a similarity in shape of the written character, despite a complete lack of phonetic similarity in the words punned upon.
It also allows for an evaluation of the similarity or dissimilarity of jokes depending on the similarity of their labels.
Self-similarity Self similarity in the Mandelbrot set shown by zooming in on a round feature while panning in the negative-x direction.
This approach allows computations of the color similarity of two given RGB colors by simply calculating the distance between them: the shorter the distance, the higher the similarity.
This means that the similarity of our thoughts and the continuity of them in this similarity do not mean that we can identify ourselves as a self but that our thoughts are similar.
And another similarity is in the works.
Another challenge for the legislators would be how to define the Nazi salute because of its similarity to other innocuous gestures where people raise their arms in the air, he said.
As such, it concluded that while the visual, aural and conceptual similarity of the marks is very similar to the earlier marks, the goods are not at all similar.
Based on the preview images, another similarity between the cartoon and the comic is R2-D2's leadership.
Because there are things in which the similarity is evident.
But this wasn't the only similarity owners found between sport and business, with teamwork, leadership and management, overcoming setbacks and clear end-goals other examples of the synergy between the two.
He stumbled upon Stu Saddoris, and couldn’t believe the similarity.
However, another similarity is at play.
I drew a line between the similarity of solitude to being left in the cold outside, which mostly starts within yourself.
I’d say the main similarity with Six is the energy of the evening.
Immediately he saw the similarity between the officer and George Dennis, which he had not noticed as a boy.
In a rather startling similarity since Google chose a way of design philosophy on the tablet – unfold – both unfold and noble $1,799.99 starting price.
In Mexico, Pato Pascual, a cartoon duck bearing an infringing similarity to Disney’s star fowl, Donald, advertises Boing!
In reality, as Rushton sets out in his Nations and Nationalism essay, similarity is higher the more heritable the genetic trait is.
It may well be the most common due to the similarity it bears to our world.
Common combinations with similarity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the similarity 54×
- similarity to 42×
- similarity between 31×
- similarity of 26×
- similarity in 19×
- another similarity 13×
- similarity is 12×
- this similarity 11×
- similarity with 10×
- its similarity 7×