as in different
being not of the same kind
a place where people with dissimilar backgrounds can interact
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as in difference
the quality or state of being different
the effectiveness of a metaphor largely depends upon the superficial dissimilarity of the two things being compared
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2024
That being said, what Mike studied was not completely dissimilar from Miyagi-Do.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 July 2024
Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2012
However, due to their structural dissimilarity, their interactions with these receptors differ slightly.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
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Adjective
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and newness is not too dissimilar.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2024
That being said, what Mike studied was not completely dissimilar from Miyagi-Do.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 20 July 2024
Noun
The underlying grayscale dissimilarity matrices represent the Euclidean distances between each pair of models, used as inputs to k-means clustering.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2012
However, due to their structural dissimilarity, their interactions with these receptors differ slightly.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
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“Dissimilar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissimilar. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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