Likeness vs Reflection - What's the difference?
likeness | reflection |
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,
The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
(senseid) Careful thought or consideration.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections .}}
An implied criticism.
(label) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
As nouns the difference between likeness and reflection
is that likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity while reflection is the act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.As a verb likeness
is 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.