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unlikeness

NOUN
  1. dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness

How To Use unlikeness In A Sentence

  • But all I experience are the symptoms of withdrawal from the self I have labored a lifetime to create -- what the medieval Cistercians called "the land of unlikeness" hiding the true self that Scripture says is created in God's image. Retreat Into Silence
  • The word ‘difference’ can be a quality or condition of being different, an instance of unlikeness, a specific point that constitutes a difference, or a distinct mark.
  • The three roles are most often given to actors of great range and technical virtuosity so that the average playgoer is more aware of their utter unlikeness to himself than of what he has in common with them.
  • He could account for his isolation, his unlikeness to everything that existed around him. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
  • But in its unlikeness to God and its dependence upon him it is a confined or restricted emanation. Dietrich of Freiberg
  • Their delicacy, their vigor, their penetrativeness, their unlikeness to those called for on the material plane, show the contrast of the earth-life to the spirit-life. Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect
  • Not only in literary visions of terrifying urban alienation, but often in more sober sociological descriptions modern urban life is characterized by its utter unlikeness to other kinds of experience.
  • Here the craftsman's labor is a medium of likeness between man and the divine Artifex as well as a means of transgression that, when it overreaches its limit through an impossible copying of what is beyond it, produces the greater unlikeness of the hyper-mimetic hybrid as a secondary, grotesque creation. Archive 2008-02-01
  • IR theorists have largely failed to follow the English school injunction that history requires ‘the elucidation of the unlikeness between past and present’.
  • This means that ‘apparently distant’ forms of life imbricate deeply because the same ontological mechanisms responsible for anthropogenesis treat nonhuman forms of life as similarly negative in their unlikeness to human life.
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