Like″ness, n. [AS. gelīcnes.] 1. The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.
2. Appearance or form; guise.
An enemy in the likeness of a friend. L'Estrange.
3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.
the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.
4. A comparison; parable; proverb.
He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).
Syn. — Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation; portrait; effigy.