antzekotasuna
Antzekotasuna is a Basque term meaning similarity or likeness. It denotes the degree to which two objects, ideas, or data points resemble each other and is used in multiple disciplines to compare features, patterns, or structures. In practice, higher antzekotasuna indicates greater resemblance between the compared items.
Etymology and scope: the word is formed from antzek- “similar” plus the abstract noun suffix -otasuna, yielding
Applications in mathematics and data science: antzekotasuna is closely linked to similarity measures, which quantify likeness
Applications in linguistics and cognition: in linguistics, antzekotasuna helps compare semantic or phonetic features of words
Important considerations: similarity is not unique or universal; the choice of measure shapes results and interpretation.
See also: similarity measure, distance, metric, vector space.