distinctive vs similar

distinctive

adj
  • Distinguished, being distinct in character or position. 

  • Distinguishing a particular sense of word. 

  • Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing. 

  • Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. 

  • Characteristic, typical. 

  • Used to separate clauses in place of stops. 

noun
  • A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic. 

  • A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect. 

  • A distinctive accent. 

similar

adj
  • Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of rotations, translations and scalings. 

  • Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other. 

  • Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable. 

noun
  • That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc. 

  • A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease. 

How often have the words distinctive and similar occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )