Similitude vs Genus - What's the difference?
similitude | genus |
(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:
(biology, taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank
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A group with common attributes.
*1945 , (Bertrand Russell), A History of Western Philosophy , p. 655:
*:Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."
(topology) A number measuring some aspect of the complexity of any of various manifolds or graphs
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
As nouns the difference between similitude and genus
is that similitude is (uncountable) similarity or resemblance to something else while genus is .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 [...].
genus
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Noun
(genera)- All magnolias belong to the genus ''Magnolia .
- Other species of the genus ''Bos'' are often called cattle or wild cattle.
- There are only two genera and species of seadragons .
- Müller criticized the division of the "Jubuleae" into two families and he cited Jubula as an annectant genus .
