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Proof that your face belongs to you, even when a portrait owns it.
means The quality of resembling someone or something, or a depiction that captures that resemblance.
from Old English gelicnes, from lic (body, form) plus -ness — so a likeness was literally your bodied form rendered elsewhere, in paint, stone, or now pixels.
Legal weightYour likeness is protectable property in many places.
Same rootShares ancestry with like and the body-word lich.
AI eraDeepfakes turned likeness into a contested commodity.