DISSIMILARITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being dissimilar

Synonyms:

dissimilarity; unsimilarity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("dissimilarity" is a kind of...):

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissimilarity"):

heterology ((biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts)

dissimilitude; unlikeness (dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness)

nonuniformity (the quality of being diverse and interesting)

Antonym:

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Derivation:

dissimilar (not alike or similar)

dissimilar (not similar)