Similitude vs Emulation - What's the difference?
similitude | emulation |
(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
(countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
(countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
* Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
A parable or allegory.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.
(obsolete) Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.263:
*:Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […], but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […].
(computing) Running a program or other software designed for a different system.
As nouns the difference between similitude and emulation
is that similitude is (uncountable) similarity or resemblance to something else while emulation is rivalry, competition.similitude
English
(wikipedia similitude)Noun
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
'''Aemulation''' was ' similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
' Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.
- And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].
emulation
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- ... is a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation .