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Similarity (philosophy) In philosophy, similarity or resemblance is a relation between objects that constitutes how much these objects are alike. Similarity comes in degrees: e.g. oranges are more similar to apples than to the moon. It is traditionally seen as an interna ...
, or resemblance, a relation between objects that constitutes how much these objects are alike * Family resemblance (anthropology), physical similarities shared between close relatives *
Family resemblance Family resemblance () is a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with the best known exposition given in his posthumously published book '' Philosophical Investigations'' (1953). It argues that things which could be thought to b ...
, a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Facial resemblance Facial resemblance, where two faces are alike, has been observed to enhance trustworthiness. As reported by an experiment, "resemblance to the subject's own face raised the incidence of trusting a partner". When similarities in appearance are disti ...
, observed to enhance trustworthiness * Resemblance nominalism, in metaphysics * '' No Resemblance Whatsoever'', a 1995 album by Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg *
w-shingling In natural language processing a ''w''-shingling is a set of ''unique'' ''shingles'' (therefore ''n-grams'') each of which is composed of contiguous subsequences of tokens within a document, which can then be used to ascertain the similarity b ...
, a technique to ascertain the similarity between documents {{Disambiguation