Symmetry vs Similarity - What's the difference?
symmetry | similarity |
Exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis.
(uncountable) The satisfying arrangement of a balanced distribution of the elements of a whole.
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Closeness of appearance to something else.
(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
As nouns the difference between symmetry and similarity
is that symmetry is exact correspondence on either side of a dividing line, plane, center or axis while similarity is closeness of appearance to something else.symmetry
English
(wikipedia symmetry)Noun
(symmetries)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry .}}
References
similarity
English
Noun
(similarities)- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. — Sir W. Hamilton.