different between harmony vs resemblance
harmony
English
Etymology
First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??m?ni/
- Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)
Noun
harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)
- Agreement or accord.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.
- December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk
- A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
- (music) The academic study of chords.
- (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
- (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
- A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.
- a harmony of the Gospels
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Further reading
- harmony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- harmony in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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resemblance
English
Alternative forms
- resemblaunce
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance).
Morphologically resemble +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z?mbl?ns/
Noun
resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)
- The quality or state of resembling
- Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity
- That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- A comparison; a simile.
- Probability; verisimilitude.
Synonyms
- likeness
Translations
Old French
Etymology
resembler +? -ance.
Noun
resemblance f (oblique plural resemblances, nominative singular resemblance, nominative plural resemblances)
- similarity (taken as a whole, the qualities than make two or more things similar)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (resemblance, supplement)
- resemblance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (has no entry, but lists one citation)
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