R E F E R E N C E S
Dissimilarity n. 1. the act of making or becoming unlike. 2. Phonet., the phonetic process by which a speech sound becomes different from or less like a neighboring sound, as pilgrim from Latin pereginus, or disappears entirely because of a like sound in an other syllable, as in the pronunciation for governor....[Dis- + [as]similate]....similar] Consider, also: To modify. A point of difference.
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House,1968.]
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