Similitude vs Simile - What's the difference?
similitude | simile |
(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
(countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
(countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
* Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
A parable or allegory.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like'' or ''as .
* 1925 , Fruit of the Flower , by
As nouns the difference between similitude and simile
is that similitude is similarity or resemblance to something else while simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.similitude
English
(wikipedia similitude)Noun
- Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
'''Aemulation''' was ' similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
' Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
- If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.
- And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].
simile
English
Noun
(en-noun)- A simile is like a metaphor.
- My father is a quiet man -- With sober, steady ways; -- For simile , a folded fan; -- His nights are like his days.