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noun (plural -gies) Date: 15th century inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others, 2. resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike ; similarity , comparison based on such resemblance, correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form, correspondence in function between anatomical parts of different structure and origin, see: likeness