Likeliness vs Resemblance - What's the difference?
likeliness | resemblance |
The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
*2004 , Klaus-Martin Goeters, Aviation psychology: practice and research :
*2006 , David W. Embley, A. Olivé, Sudha Ram, Conceptual modeling :
Suitability; agreeableness.
*2004 , Peter Lipton, Inference to the best explanation :
Likeness; similarity.
* 1727 , Robert South, Twelve Sermons
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)
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
As nouns the difference between likeliness and resemblance
is that likeliness is the condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur while resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.likeliness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.
- To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
- A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
- No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.
resemblance
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Alternative forms
* resemblaunceNoun
(en noun)- 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.
