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Observance vs Resemblance - What's the difference?

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Observance is a related term of resemblance.


As nouns the difference between observance and resemblance

is that observance is the practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule while resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

observance

Alternative forms

* observaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule
  • The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion
  • Observation or the act of watching
  • (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church
  • resemblance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * resemblaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • Words' and '''things''' were united in their ''''''resemblance''''''. Renaissance man thought in terms of '''similitudes''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. There were four ranges of '''resemblance'''.
    '''Aemulation''' was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
    '''Convenientia''' connected things near to one another, e.g. animal and plant, making a great “chain” of being.
    '''Analogy''': a wider range based less on likeness than on similar relations.
    '''Sympathy''' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
    A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and '
    interpreting
    , not observing or demonstrating.
  • That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • A comparison; a simile.
  • Probability; verisimilitude.
  • Synonyms

    * likeness