Which suffix means 'resembling'?

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The suffix that means “resembling” attaches to a base to describe something as like or similar to what the base names. It turns colors into shades, people into qualities, and ideas into likenesses—for example, greenish means somewhat green, reddish means like red, and childish means having the qualities of a child. The other suffixes point to different ideas: -ist denotes a person who practices or believes in something, -ity marks a state or quality, and -ion indicates an action or process. Since these do not convey resemblance, they’re not the right fit for the meaning “resembling.”