Similitude vs Comparable - What's the difference?
similitude | comparable |
(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:
Able to be compared (to).
Similar (to); like.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
(grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
Something suitable for comparison.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?, New York Times
, passage=And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables , because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. }}
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As nouns the difference between similitude and comparable
is that similitude is (uncountable) similarity or resemblance to something else while comparable is something suitable for comparison.As an adjective comparable is
able to be compared (to).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 [...].
comparable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Noun
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