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family resemblance en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
2. 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 family resemblance to the contemporaneous shift in women's studies from studying women to studying men and masculinities. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 4:

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de Familienähnlichkeit (physical similarity) · nl familiegelijkenis (physical similarity) · fr ressemblance familiale ((philosophy)) · fi yhdennäköisyys (physical similarity) · fr air de famille (physical similarity) · pl podobieństwo rodzinne (physical similarity)