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Identification vs Resemblance - What's the difference?

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Identification is a related term of resemblance.


As nouns the difference between identification and resemblance

is that identification is the act of identifying, or proving to be the same while resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

identification

English

(wikipedia identification)

Noun

  • The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
    • Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species
  • The state of being identified.
  • A particular instance of identifying something.
    • information necessary to make a good identification
  • A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
    • The authorities asked for his identification
  • A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1998 , author=Hugh Berrington , title=Britain in the nineties , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=192 , passage=In the English South and Midlands, identification' with Britain ran well ahead of '''identification''' with the region; in Yorkshire and the northern England, '''identification''' with the region ran about equal to '''identification''' with Britain; and in Scotland and Wales (but more especially in Scotland) '''identification''' with the region ('Scotland' or 'Wales') ran well ahead of ' identification with Britain.}}

    Derived terms

    * ID * ident

    Related terms

    * identic * identical * identifier * identify * identity ----

    resemblance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * resemblaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Words' and '''things''' were united in their ''''''resemblance''''''. Renaissance man thought in terms of '''similitudes''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. There were four ranges of '''resemblance'''.
    '''Aemulation''' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
    '''Convenientia''' connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.
    '''Analogy''': a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations.
    '''Sympathy''' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
    A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and '     interpreting     , not observing or demonstrating.
  • That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • A comparison; a simile.
  • Probability; verisimilitude.

    • Synonyms

    * likeness