Resemblance vs Dissemblance - What's the difference?
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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)
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
(countable) An act of dissembling.
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(uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally.
* 1980 Dec. 22, Virginia Haradon, "
(countable) Dissimilarity, unlikeness.
* 1849 , , The Sea Lions , ch. 11:
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As nouns the difference between resemblance and dissemblance
is that resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity while dissemblance is (countable) an act of dissembling.resemblance
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Alternative forms
* resemblaunceNoun
(en noun)- 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.
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* likenessdissemblance
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Letters," Time :
- With Mae West, coquettish dissemblance was out; womanly seductiveness was in.
- As this latter animal [the sperm whale] is quite one-third head, he has no very great dissemblance to the alligator in this particular.
The Greatest Miracle," Hawera & Normanby Star (New Zealand), p. 2 (retrieved 12 Aug. 2011):
- Moreover, at any season there is a difference between down grass and mountain grass, between sea grass and valley grass, between moor grass and wood grass. It may be slight, and not in kind but only in shadowy dissemblances of texture and hue.
