similitude

toisinto

samankaltaisuus puhekieltä similarity Similarity or resemblance to something else.
1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

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 ....