Dictionary entry

Dissimilitude

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis′si‐mil″i‐tude (?), n. [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.] 1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

2. (Rhet.) A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.