Comparison

Quick meaning: Comparison is a noun meaning The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

Meaning

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

More Meanings

1. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
2. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
3. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
4. (rhetoric) A simile.
5. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
6. (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.

Example Sentences

there is no comparison between them

to bring a thing into comparison with another

He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.

As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for comparison

Depending on context, synonyms include parallel, equivalence, compare, comparability, comparing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include compare, comparability, equivalence, comparing, comparer, comparative.

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