Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
similar ;similarity .
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similar + -ness
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Examples
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In Edwards 'view, beauty or “excellency” “consists in the similarness of one being to another ” not merely equality and proportion, but any kind of similarness ¦.
Jonathan Edwards Wainwright, William 2009
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One could even see the protaganist as being in 'director's chair' as a seer of 'sight and sound' to the point that he is even interacting with the proceedings as much as he can (although he is doomed by his impotency as he can't play such an active role as he would wish to!). btw in this aspect i could also see its thematic similarness to soderberg's sex, lies and videotape - the seer as non participator in the sexual act even if
NAACHGAANA 2008
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