Similarity may refer to:

In mathematics and computing

  • Similarity (geometry), the property of sharing the same shape
  • Matrix similarity, a relation between matrices
  • Similarity measure, a function that quantifies the similarity of two objects
  • Cosine similarity, which uses the angle between vectors
  • String metric, also called string similarity
  • Semantic similarity, in computational linguistics

In linguistics

  • Lexical similarity
  • Semantic similarity

In other fields

  • Similitude (model), in engineering, describing the geometric, kinematic and dynamic 'likeness' of two or more systems
  • Similarity (psychology)
  • Similarity (philosophy)
  • Similarity (signal processing)
  • Musical similarity
  • Chemical similarity
  • Similarity (network science)
  • Structural similarity
  • Similar (film), an upcoming South Korean film

See also

  • Same (disambiguation)
  • Difference (disambiguation)
  • Equality (mathematics)
  • Identity (philosophy)