单词 | family resemblance |
释义 | family resemblancen. 1. Similarity, esp. in appearance, between members of the same family or family line; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > between family members family likeness1748 family resemblance1757 1757 Crit. Rev. Dec. 552 Sir Roger and his son Joe are but very dull companions, and have such a family-resemblance to the Bubbled Knights..that we cannot help suspecting, that they all had the same Father. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. vii. 172 The brothers had indeed a strong family resemblance, though Halbert was far more athletic and active in his person. 1894 F. M. Crawford Casa Braccio xliii. 259 In character she was utterly different from his dead wife; but there was something of family resemblance between the two. 1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn ii. iii. 92 He looked at the crowd of negro women and tried to pick out, on the basis of family resemblance, the mother of Smoke Jordan. 2005 J. B. Stewart Disney War i. 39 He bore a strong family resemblance to his uncle Walt. 2. Similarity between things which are considered to be connected or related; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which is related or has affinity brotherOE cousina1398 relativea1475 sistera1500 cousin-germanc1547 yokefellow1547 ally1566 affinitive1579 twin1592 conjugate1605 sympathizant1620 relatist1640 first cousin1670 family likeness1759 family resemblance1785 the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] anlikenessOE ylikenessOE likenessa1250 likeliheada1393 resemblancea1393 likeliness?a1425 similitudec1425 semblingc1440 alikenessc1450 assemblance1485 agreement1495 likelihood1495 agreeance1525 analogy1542 simility1543 semblablenessc1550 semblance1576 nearness1577 vicinity1594 simile1604 assimilation1605 consimilitude1610 parity1612 bly1615 similarity1615 connaturality1621 similiancy1622 connaturalnessa1628 reasemblance1638 consimilarity1658 similariness1669 similarness1670 consimility1680 kindredship1733 family likeness1759 family resemblance1785 cognateness1816 feel1892 1785 R. J. Sulivan Philos. Rhapsodies II. lxxx. 422 This analogy of customs might still be extended; but more would be unnecessary. Each of them had strong-marked features, and a strong family resemblance. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 94 The general family resemblance between certain groups of bodies, now regarded as elementary, (as..for instance, chlorine, iode, and brome). 1858 Sat. Rev. 29 May 566/1 A peculiar and remarkable writer, whose style showed little or no family resemblances with that of any living author. 1905 Craftsman Oct. 39 There is family resemblance between all lintels and all capitals, and while variations may be extreme, the fundamental forms remain the same. 1997 Compl. Road & Track Car Buyer's Guide 28 Oct. 83/1 Park a Toyota Paseo next to a Toyota Supra and you'll see a strong family resemblance. 3. Chiefly in or with reference to the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein: one of a network of overlapping but discontinuous similarities between extensions of a concept or meanings of a word. Frequently attributive, as family resemblance concept, family resemblance term, etc. In quot. 1953 in the context of an analysis of the concept game. Wittgenstein argues that there are similarities between different types of game (some are active, some involve rules, etc.) but there is no unifying feature which characterizes all games; he likens such similarities to the resemblances between facial features of family members. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [noun] > ordinary language philosophies > elements of Wittgenstein's theories Sachverhalt1922 state of affairs1922 protophenomenon1932 family resemblance1953 1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. §67 I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than ‘family resemblances’ [Ger. ‘Familienähnlichkeiten’]. 1961 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 20 175/2 ‘Work of art’, as applied to paintings, is a ‘family-resemblance’ term, in Wittgenstein's sense. 1991 Lang. in Society 20 645 The quest for precise truth-functional definitions needs to be replaced by attention to a range of less bounded categories such as prototypes, fuzzy sets, family resemblances, and metaphors. 2009 S. R. Clegg & M. Haugaard Sage Handbk. Power 4 As a family resemblance concept, ‘power’ covers a cluster of social phenomena central to the constitution of social order. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1757 |
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