dissimilarity
IPA: dɪsɪmʌɫˈærʌti
noun
- Lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else.
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Examples of "dissimilarity" in Sentences
- Even more shocking is the material dissimilarity between rural areas and Havana.
- Though both shows are very smart, the dissimilarity is one of the reasons I like it.
- This parameter was named the "dissimilarity" parameter for the more general case of an arbitrary input
- In his shift More exemplifies the mechanism by which religious affinity, not dissimilarity, engenders animus.
- Edward Glaeser used the most common measure of segregation - called the dissimilarity index - to determine the mixing of races since 1970.
- It was similarity more than dissimilarity that troubled the Jew haters.133 The Eastern Jews advertised their allegiance and could be avoided.
- Briefly, this script creates 1000 random permutations of the matrix of environmental variables and compares these with the real protein expression dissimilarity matrix.
- A Christian who says rape is due to irreligion and materialism (in the sensual meaning) says there is dissimilarity of rates of rape between Christian and nonchristian societies, or between churched and unchurched areas; that rape is motivated by sexual desire; that rape is higher in areas with more masturbation and pornography and unwholesomely dressed or improperly behaving women ..
- Later that evening he defined this dissimilarity from the American girl as the result not only of her French blood but of her European training, her quiet secluded girlhood in a provincial town of great beauty, where she had received a leisurely education rare in the United States, seen or read little of the great world (she had visited Paris only twice and briefly), her mind charmingly developed by conscientious tutors.
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