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Guise vs Likeness - What's the difference?

guise | likeness |

As nouns the difference between guise and likeness

is that guise is customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice () or guise can be (internet slang) while likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.

As a verb likeness is

(archaic|transitive) to depict.

guise

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) guise, gise, gyse, from (etyl) guisse, guise, . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (.)
  • * 1924 , Aristotle. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
    • dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher
  • External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
  • Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.
    • Under the guise of patriotism
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety?
    Synonyms
    * (customary way of acting) behavior, manner, mien, practice * (external appearance) appearance, look
    Related terms
    * disguise

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (Internet slang)
    • Sup guise ? — What's up, guys?
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    likeness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
  • Appearance or form; guise.
    • An enemy in the likeness of a friend.
  • * Genesis, I, 26
    • 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.
  • That which closely resembles; a portrait.
    • How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

    Synonyms

    * similarity

    Related terms

    * like

    See also

    * copy * portrait * analogy

    Verb

    (es)
  • (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, 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.
  • * 1868 , November, advertisement, in 's Home Magazine , Volume XXXII, Number 21, 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.