different between simile vs euphuism

English

Etymology

From Latin simile (“comparison, likeness, parallel”) (first attested 1393), originally from simile, neuter form of similis (“like, similar, resembling”). Confer the English similar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?li/

Noun

simile (countable and uncountable, plural similes or similia)

1. A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another, using e.g. like or as.

   Antonym: dissimile

   Coordinate term: (when the comparison is implicit) metaphor

   Hypernym: figure of speech

   • 1826, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours (volume 33)

     He made a simile of George the third to Nebuchadnezzar, and of the prince regent to Belshazzar, and insisted that the prince represented the latter in not paying much attention to what had happened to kings […]

   • 1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower

     My father is a quiet man / With sober, steady ways; / For simile, a folded fan; / His nights are like his days.

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See also

• metaphor
• Category:English similes
• Appendix:English similes

Further reading

• simile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mislie, smilie

Esperanto

Adverb

simile

1. similarly

Interlingua

Adjective

simile (comparative plus simile, superlative le plus simile)

1. similar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin similis.

Adjective

simile (plural simili)

1. similar
   • Non è molto simile. It is not very similar.
2. such
   • È possibile una cosa simile? Is such a thing possible?

Synonyms

• similare

Antonyms

• diverso, differente, dissimile

Related terms

• similitudine
• similmente
• simil-

Latin

Adjective

simile

1. nominative neuter singular of similis
2. accusative neuter singular of similis
3. vocative neuter singular of similis

References

• simile in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

From John Lyly's didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), +? -ism.

Noun

euphuism (countable and uncountable, plural euphuisms)

1. (uncountable) An ornate style of writing (in Elizabethan England) marked by the excessive use of alliteration, antithesis and mythological similes.
2. An instance of euphuism.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

     I have not the slightest faith in Carlyle. In ten years–possibly in five–he will be remembered only as a butt for sarcasm. His linguistic Euphuisms might very well have been taken as prima facie evidence of his philosophic ones; they were the froth which indicated, first, the shallowness, and secondly, the confusion of the waters.

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