likeness

[ lahyk-nis ]

/ ˈlaɪk nɪs /

a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.

the state or fact of being like: I can't get over your likeness to my friend.

the semblance or appearance of something; guise: to assume the likeness of a swan.

Origin of likeness

before 950; Middle English liknesse, Old English līcnes, variant of gelīcnes. See alike, -ness

2 resemblance, similitude.

3 shape, form.

If her likeness on the billboard makes waves, why stop there?

Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas Card |Abby Haglage |September 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Now, her likeness stars in a “Consume Responsibly” billboard.

Maureen Dowd: ‘I Love’ Pot Billboard Using My Image, Will Use It for Christmas Card |Abby Haglage |September 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
His likeness adorns the more expensive posters, calendars and tea towels inside the store.

The Seedy Side of Sainthood: Was John Paul II Canonized Too Fast? |Barbie Latza Nadeau |April 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
She had gotten his likeness tattooed on her upper arm, and she raised her sleeve to show it to a reporter.

Alphonza Bryant, the Slain Bronx Teen Who Did Everything Right |Michael Daly |May 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Other demonstrators held up photos of Martin Luther King, Jr.—some wore masks of his likeness, too—and Frederick Douglas.

"Obama, Come Here To Hebron" |Ali Gharib |March 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
It is generally a gross approximation of the conception of the Infinite Being to the likeness of man.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance |John Foster
Love is the ladder by which we climb up to the likeness of God.

Leaves of Life |Margaret Bird Steinmetz
There is but one way to press into the depths of the knowledge of God—namely growth into His likeness.

The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon |Alexander Maclaren
"It may hae been something waur, in his likeness," said Dame Glendinning.

The Monastery |Sir Walter Scott
The apparition or whatever it was that had taken the likeness of G—had disappeared.

Indian Ghost Stories |S. Mukerji

likeness

/ (ˈlaɪknɪs) /

the condition of being alike; similarity

a painted, carved, moulded, or graphic image of a person or thing

an imitative appearance; semblance