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means A resemblance or image of someone — especially one's face or form as captured, reproduced, or legally claimed as their own.

from From Old English 'gelic' (alike, similar), the ancestor of 'like' itself. English speakers bolted on '-ness' to turn the quality of being 'like' someone into a noun — your 'likeness' is literally your 'like-ity,' the degree to which an image matches you. The word stayed humble for centuries, just describing portraits and reflections, long before law got involved and decided that this old, plain word for resemblance could also be property.