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单词 family resemblance
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family resemblancen.

Brit. /ˌfam(ᵻ)lɪ rᵻˈzɛmbl(ə)ns/, /ˌfaml̩ɪ rᵻˈzɛmbl(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˌfæm(ə)li rəˈzɛmbləns/, /ˌfæm(ə)li riˈzɛmbləns/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: family n., resemblance n.1
Etymology: < family n. + resemblance n.1 Compare family likeness n.In sense 3 after German Familienähnlichkeit (1953 in this sense in L. Wittgenstein Philosophische Untersuchungen in the passage translated in quot. 1953 at sense 3).
1. Similarity, esp. in appearance, between members of the same family or family line; an instance of this.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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