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Similarly vs Closely - What's the difference?

similarly | closely |

As adverbs the difference between similarly and closely

is that similarly is in a like style or manner while closely is in a close manner.

similarly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (manner) In a like style or manner.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (conjunctive) (Used to link similar items)

    • Synonyms

    * (in a like style or manner) likewise

    closely

    English

    Adverb

    (en-adv)
  • In a close manner.
    • Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages.
    The borderline between East and West Berlin was very closely guarded.
    The chairs are too closely spaced.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely , with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction. }}
  • (obsolete) secretly; privately
  • * Spenser
    • That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe / Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe.