Likeness vs Metaphor - What's the difference?
likeness | metaphor | Related terms |
The state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.
Appearance or form; guise.
* Genesis, I, 26
That which closely resembles; a portrait.
(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,
* 1868 , November, advertisement, in 's Home Magazine , Volume XXXII, Number 21,
(uncountable, figure of speech) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile.
* What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors''', metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are '''metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.'' — Friedrich Nietzsche, ''On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense , 1870, translated by Daniel Beazeale, 1979.
(countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.
Likeness is a related term of metaphor.
As nouns the difference between likeness and metaphor
is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while metaphor is (uncountable|figure of speech) the use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of english without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile.As a verb likeness
is (archaic|transitive) to depict.likeness
English
Noun
(es)- An enemy in the likeness of a friend.
- 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.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
* similaritySee also
* copy * portrait * analogyVerb
(es)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.
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.