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Likeness vs Portrayal - What's the difference?

likeness | portrayal | Synonyms |

Likeness is a synonym of portrayal.


As nouns the difference between likeness and portrayal

is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while portrayal is the act of portraying.

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.

    portrayal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of portraying.
  • The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
  • * 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
    • He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...
  • * 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste
    • For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.