Compliance vs Likeness - What's the difference?
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An act of complying.
(uncountable) The state of being compliant.
(uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
(medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
(uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with
The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
Appearance or form; guise.
* Genesis, I, 26
That which closely resembles; a portrait.
(archaic) To depict.
* 1857 , April 25, , in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870 , Belknap Press (1987), ISBN 0-674-52583-3,
* 1868 , November, advertisement, in 's Home Magazine , Volume XXXII, Number 21,
Compliance is a related term of likeness.
As nouns the difference between compliance and likeness
is that compliance is an act of complying while likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.As a verb likeness is
(archaic|transitive) to depict.compliance
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Noun
Antonyms
*(act of complying) violationlikeness
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Noun
(es)- An enemy in the likeness of a friend.
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
* similaritySee also
* copy * portrait * analogyVerb
(es)page 171:
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed : the other, perhaps, not so well.
after page 320:
- Every member of the family [of is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.