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likeness vs icon

icon vs likeness

likeness and icon both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
likeness Yes No No No
icon Yes No No No
As nouns, icon is a hypernym of likeness; that is, icon is a word with a broader meaning than likeness:
  • likeness: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
  • icon: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Other hypernyms of likeness include ikon, image, picture.
likeness (noun) icon (noun)
picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Difference between likeness and icon

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