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Lakeness vs Likeness - What's the difference?

lakeness | likeness |

As nouns the difference between lakeness and likeness

is that lakeness is the state or quality of being a lake while likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.

As a verb likeness is

(archaic|transitive) to depict.

lakeness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being a lake.
  • * 1977 , J. Bryan Moffet, Teaching Elementary School Social Studies , Little, Brown (1977), page 184:
    • Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is.
  • * 1995 , Ralph Lombreglia, Make Me Work , Penguin (1995), ISBN 9780140242225, page 100:
    • Sam was painting big abstract landscapes in those days — masses of green and brown and blue plucked from the world around here — and he would tell me the right way to look at the lake, how to empty myself of all thoughts of lakeness , and just see the thing.
  • * 2002 , Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham , Oregon State University Press (2002), ISBN 9780870715471, page 113:
    • Ahead stretched miles of the unknown, lands and waters resembling my home waters, yet not quite it. There was a disturbing feeling of lakeness : unlike four-doored Possession Sound and multi-doored Puget, Port Susan had but a single door.

    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.