{
  "id": "like.similarity",
  "term": "like",
  "sense": "similarity",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "word",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When a thing has the same pattern as another thing.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "Two things compare their patterns and find them the same.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "perceived similarity",
      "comparative assessment",
      "shared pattern recognition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy mirror the pattern of density waves in traffic flow on a circular highway.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The structure of benzene molecules matches the pattern of a hexagonal tile arrangement in Islamic mosaics at the Alhambra.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "The branching veins in a leaf resemble the fractal paths of rivers in the Amazon Basin seen from satellite.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    },
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "agreement.social",
    "check.verification",
    "compare.relation",
    "family.social",
    "friend.social",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "model.representation",
    "noun.language",
    "yellow.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "like",
    "liked",
    "likes",
    "liking"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-like.similarity"
}