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Likeness vs Commonality - What's the difference?

likeness | commonality |

As nouns the difference between likeness and commonality

is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while commonality is the common people; the commonalty.

As a verb likeness

is (archaic|transitive) to depict.

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.

    commonality

    English

    Noun

    (commonalities)
  • The common people; the commonalty
  • The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.
  • *1969 , "Second life for war widows", Time , 25 Jun 1969:
  • *:Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors in the fearful jargon of his profession: "In a situation where commonality of loss of the husband is present, the group can be exceedingly supportive."
  • Such a shared attribute or characteristic
  • (telecommunication) A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.
  • * 2003 , , transcript of radio communication,
    • KLING: FYI I've just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle, hydraulic return temperatures. (pause) Two of them on system one and one in each of systems 2 and 3.
    CAIN: Four hyd return temps?
    KLING: To the left outboard and left inboard elevons.
    CAIN: OK, is there anything common to them, DSC or MDM or anything? I mean, you're telling me you lost them all at exactly the same time?
    KLING: No, not exactly. They were within probably four or five seconds of each other.
    CAIN: OK, where are those? Where is that instrumentation located?
    KLING: All four of them are located in the aft part of the left wing, right in front of the elevons, elevon actuators. And there is no commonality .
    CAIN: No commonality .
  • *:(long pause)

    • Synonyms

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    References

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