Identical vs Resemblance - What's the difference?
identical | resemblance |
(not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
* {{quote-book, year=1911, title=Encyclopædia Britannica, chapter=
, passage=By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration.}}
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(not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
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* {{quote-book, year=1922, title=, by=W. C. Firebaugh, author=Petronius,
passage=Nor could I myself look upon this man without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, he was!}}
(not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
(not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
(comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
* 1788 , , XLI:
(usually, pluralized, chiefly, philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
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)
That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
A comparison; a simile.
Probability; verisimilitude.
As nouns the difference between identical and resemblance
is that identical is something which has exactly the same properties as something else while resemblance is the quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.As an adjective identical
is bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.identical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The terms of Article 8th are still more identical .
Usage notes
* (en-usage-equal) * Adverbs often used with "identical": absolutely, almost, nearly, practically, virtually, substantially.Synonyms
* (bearing full likeness) same * (selfsame) same, selfsameAntonyms
* non-identical * different * distinctDerived terms
* identically * identicalnessNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* indiscernibility of identicalsReferences
* * *resemblance
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Alternative forms
* resemblaunceNoun
(en noun)- 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.