What is the difference between resemblance and similarity?
resemblance | similarity |
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.
Closeness of appearance to something else.
(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
Similarity is a synonym of resemblance.
As nouns the difference between resemblance and similarity
is that resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity while similarity is closeness of appearance to something else.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.
Synonyms
* likenesssimilarity
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Noun
(similarities)- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. — Sir W. Hamilton.
