Other forms: resemblances
A resemblance is the way one thing looks like another. You meet a friend's brother and see it in the first second — the same nose, the same way of standing in a doorway.
It nearly always takes TO: a resemblance to her mother, a resemblance to the original. When you set two things side by side you can say a resemblance BETWEEN them instead. It is a word about appearance first, though it stretches to ideas and accounts: 'the film bears little resemblance to the book'. Bear is the verb that goes with it — a thing bears a resemblance. The verb resemble takes no preposition at all: he resembles his father, never 'resembles to his father'. And the line at the end of film credits — any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental — is where most people have met the word in full.
1nounresemblanceThe fact of looking or being like something else.
“There is a strong resemblance between the two sisters.”
synonyms: likeness, similarity
2nounpointA point or degree of similarity between things that are otherwise different.
“His account bears no resemblance to what actually happened that night.”
resemblance is a similarity.
Resemblance came into English through Anglo-Norman from French, built on the verb resemble with the ending -ance. Behind the Latin lies the old Indo-European root *sem-, 'one, the same' — the root that also stands under same and similar. A resemblance is, at bottom, a claim of sameness.
Proto-Indo-European
*sem-
Anglo-Norman
resemblance
English, today
resemblance
From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French - (compare French ressemblance). Morphologically resemble + -ance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA