| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
Synonyms: |
allegory, analogizing, analogy, analyzing, association, balancing, bringing together, collating, collation, comparability, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, dividing, estimation, example, exemplification, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, likening, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, paralleling, ratio, relating, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
Synonyms: |
affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude |
| Notes: | analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared |
Antonyms: |
disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | contrast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference |
Synonyms: |
adverse, antithesis, comparison, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, converse, differentiation, disagreement, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divergence, diversity, foil, heterogeneity, incompatibility, incongruousness, inconsistency, inequality, inverse, oppositeness, opposition, reverse, unlikeness, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
agreement, conformity, copy, equality, facsimile, homogeneousness, likeness, similarity, uniformity, unity |
| Main Entry: | correspondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
Synonyms: |
accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparability, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry |
Antonyms: |
difference, disagreement |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | likeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison, conformity, copy, counterpart, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identicalness, identity, image, knock-off, lookalike, model, parallelism, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity |
Antonyms: |
difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | parallel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complement, correlation |
Synonyms: |
analogue, analogy, comparison, corollary, correlate, correspondence, correspondent, counterpart, countertype, double, duplicate, duplication, equal, equivalent, homologue, kin*, likeness, match, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, twin |
Antonyms: |
difference, divergence, opposite, reverse |
| Main Entry: | rate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ratio, proportion |
Synonyms: |
amount, comparison, degree, estimate, percentage, progression, quota, relation, relationship, relative, scale, standard, weight |
Antonyms: |
whole |
| Main Entry: | resemblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence, similarity |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, affinity, alikeness, analogy, birds of a feather, carbon copy, carbon, clone, closeness, coincidence, comparability, comparison, conformity, counterpart, double, facsimile, image, kinship, like of, likeness, look-alike, parallel, parity, peas in a pod, ringer, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, spitting image, two of a kind |
Antonyms: |
contrast, difference, dissimililarity, diversity |
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
Synonyms: |
affinity, air, alikeness, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, veil, veneer |