likenessn.[AS. gelcnes.]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.()He said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. (Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).)() See Lickerish, Lickerishness.(Chaucer.)