Manifestation vs Likeness - What's the difference?
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The act or process of becoming manifest.
The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
(medical) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking in to it.
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,
Manifestation is a related term of likeness.
As nouns the difference between manifestation and likeness
is that manifestation is the act or process of becoming manifest while likeness is the state or quality of being like or alike; similitude; resemblance; similarity.As a verb likeness is
(archaic|transitive) to depict.manifestation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
- This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
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.