Shodnost
Shodnost is a term found in Slavic-language scholarship that denotes similarity or conformity between two objects, ideas, or phenomena. In English-language contexts the word is uncommon, and authors typically use the terms similarity, likeness, affinity, congruence, or compatibility to express the same idea. The concept groups the ways in which two items resemble each other across selected features or dimensions.
Etymology and usage notes: The word is tied to the idea of coincidence or correspondence between entities.
Applications: In linguistics, shodnost may describe the degree to which two linguistic forms share phonological, morphological,
Measurement: Shodnost is typically expressed as a numeric similarity score between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates
Limitations: The meaning of shodnost is contingent on the chosen features and representation; different feature choices
See also: Similarity, Congruence, Affinity, Matching, Distance metric.