resemblance

• resemblaunce

From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance). Morphologically resemble +‎ -ance.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɛmbləns/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈzɛmbləns/
• Rhymes: -ɛmbləns
• Hyphenation: re‧sem‧blance

resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)

1. The quality or state of resembling.

   Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 16–17:

     His wife and sister had too many points of resemblance, not to entertain a strong and mutual dislike.

   • 2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI:

     Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
3. A comparison; a simile.
4. Probability; verisimilitude.

• likeness

• semblance

resembler +‎ -ance.

resemblance oblique singular, f (oblique plural resemblances, nominative singular resemblance, nominative plural resemblances)

1. similarity (taken as a whole, the qualities than make two or more things similar)

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “resemblance”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• resemblance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (has no entry, but lists one citation)