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comparison - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogy, association, collation, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, estimation, example, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, ratio, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing, analogizing, analyzing, balancing, bringing together, collating, comparability, dividing, exemplification, likening, paralleling, relating |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude, alikeness, homology |
| 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, converse, disagreement, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, divergence, diversity, foil, incompatibility, inconsistency, inequality, inverse, opposition, reverse, variance, variation, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, differentiation, dissimilitude, heterogeneity, incongruousness, oppositeness, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | agreement, conformity, copy, equality, facsimile, likeness, similarity, uniformity, unity, homogeneousness |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
| Synonyms: | allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, metaphor, ornament, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, understatement, adumbration, alliteration, analogue, anaphora, antistrophe, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, echoism, ellipsis, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, proteron, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | likeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affinity, agreement, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparison, conformity, copy, counterpart, dead ringer*, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identity, image, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity, alikeness, analogousness, comparableness, identicalness, knock-off, lookalike, parallelism |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parallel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complement, correlation |
| Synonyms: | analogy, comparison, corollary, correlate, correspondence, correspondent, counterpart, double, duplicate, equal, equivalent, kin*, likeness, match, resemblance, similarity, twin, analogue, countertype, duplication, homologue, parallelism |
| Antonyms: | difference, divergence, opposite, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resemblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence, similarity |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affinity, analogy, birds of a feather*, carbon*, carbon copy, clone, closeness, coincidence, comparison, conformity, counterpart, double, facsimile, image, kinship, likeness, look-alike, parallel, parity, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, spitting image*, alikeness, comparability, like of, peas in a pod, ringer, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | contrast, difference, diversity, dissimililarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
| Synonyms: | affinity, air, 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, veil, veneer, alikeness, simulacrum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | similarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness, correspondence |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, analogy, approximation, association, closeness, coincidence, collation, community, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, connection, correlation, dead ringer*, harmony, homogeneity, identity, kinship, look-alike, parallel, parity, proportion, reciprocity, relation, relationship, resemblance, sameness, semblance, simile, similitude, alikeness, comparability, concordance, congruence, interrelation, likes of, parallelism, peas in a pod, synonymity, two of a kind |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, opposition, unlikeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | study |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | learning, analysis |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, application, attention, class, cogitation, comparison, concentration, consideration, contemplation, course, debate, deliberation, examination, exercise, inquiry, inspection, investigation, lesson, meditation, muse, musing, questioning, reading, reasoning, reflection, research, reverie, review, scrutiny, subject, survey, thought, trance, weighing, academic work, analyzing, cramming, memorizing, pondering, rumination, schoolwork |
| Main Entry: | collation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resemblance |
| Synonyms: | comparison, examination, relation, relationship |
| Main Entry: | equation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equating |
| Synonyms: | comparison, equalization, mathematical statement |
| Main Entry: | symbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typology |
| Synonyms: | analogy, comparison, metaphor |
| Main Entry: | correspondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry, comparability |
| Antonyms: | difference, disagreement |
| 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 |
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