Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Likeness \Like"ness\, n. [AS. gel[=i]cnes.]
   1. The state or quality of being like; similitude;
      resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to
      the other is remarkable.

   2. Appearance or form; guise.

            An enemy in the likeness of a friend. --L'Estrange.

   3. That which closely resembles; a portrait.

            [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still
            remain enable us to imagine.          --Macaulay.

   4. A comparison; parable; proverb. [Obs.]

            He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this
            likeness, Leech, heal thyself.        --Wyclif (Luke
                                                  iv. 23).

   Syn: Similarity; parallel; similitude; representation;
        portrait; effigy.

Source : WordNet®

likeness
     n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between
          persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"
          [syn: {alikeness}, {similitude}] [ant: {unlikeness}, {unlikeness}]
     2: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
        [syn: {semblance}]