SuaviloquyToday’s word

dissimilitude

Dissimilitude, n.

Etymology: [L. dissimilitudo, fr. dissimilis: cf. F. dissimilitude.]

1. Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

2. (Rhet.)

A comparison by contrast; a dissimile.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for dissimilitude; he lists it under difference.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.