Associations to the word «Similarity»

Wiktionary

SIMILARITY, noun. Closeness of appearance to something else.
SIMILARITY, noun. (philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.

Dictionary definition

SIMILARITY, noun. The quality of being similar.
SIMILARITY, noun. A Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope