family resemblance
family resemblance noun: physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
Noun
family resemblance (plural family resemblances)
- Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
- One of a series of overlapping similarities between two or more comparanda.
- What does it mean to be part of the racial majority, and how have different social groups achieved that? Whiteness studies wanted to know. This was a significant shift of the theoretical and empirical gaze, from the subordinate to the dominant, from the minority to the majority, and it shared a...2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 4
Forms of family resemblance
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Questions about family resemblance
- What does family resemblance mean?
- Family resemblance means physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
- What part of speech is family resemblance?
- Family resemblance is a noun.
- What is the plural of family resemblance?
- The plural of family resemblance is family resemblances.
Words near family resemblance in the dictionary
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