LIKENESSES Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

likenesses

noun

plural of likeness

as in pictures

a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness

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something or someone that strongly resembles another why, you're the very likeness of your mother!

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Recent Examples of likenesses Also fascinating were their contrasting likenesses, dark against light housed in the same being, a human eclipse. —

Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 To that point, a college coach suing the NCAA could make NCAA member schools less likely to hire that coach, a consequence that Ed O’Bannon experienced after suing the NCAA over unauthorized use of college athletes’ likenesses in video games. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 May 2026 Those likenesses, uncanny in the way a dog and its owner might begin to resemble one another, are unmistakable while paging through Chelsea Hotel, a new collection of Scopin’s photographs taken in and around the historic locale between 1969 and 1971. —

Curbed Editors, Curbed, 13 May 2026 Thanks to a series of court rulings, college athletes, who for decades were the (at least officially) free labor fueling the entire industry are finally getting paid—through their schools and in sponsorship deals for their names, images, and likenesses. —

Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026 People in the entertainment industry have slammed AI for mimicking artists’ voices and likenesses. —

Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026 Davis and a co-defendant allegedly secured almost $20 million in loans by using the names and likenesses of NFL players. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 28 Apr. 2026 The trademarks represent a new avenue celebrities are pursuing to challenge AI companies and users simulating their likenesses and voices without permission. —

Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 Thus André Breton—the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s—chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935. —

Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026

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On this night, as Rashad posed for pictures in Bushwick, SZA was a few miles away in Manhattan, walking the red carpet at the Met Gala.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
Once in the asteroid's orbit, NASA's spacecraft is slated to take pictures of the asteroid's surface and shed light on its composition, over the course of about two years.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026