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Resemblance vs Synonym - What's the difference?

resemblance | synonym |

As nouns the difference between resemblance and synonym

is that resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity while synonym is .

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

    synonym

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (semantics, with respect to a given word or phrase) A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
  • "Happy" is a synonym of "glad".
  • *
  • (zoology, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any of the formal names for the taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
  • (botany, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any name for the taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
  • (databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
  • * 2011 , Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible
  • Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.

    Synonyms

    * (word or phrase with same meaning as another) equivalent, poecilonym

    Antonyms

    * (word or phrase with same meaning as another) antonym, opposite

    Derived terms

    * near-synonym

    See also

    (en) * homotypic * heterotypic * ----