Synonyms for analogy
əˈnæl ə dʒianal·o·gy

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1. analogy

   Analogy is specifically a resemblance of relations; a resemblance that may be reasoned from, so that from the likeness in certain respects we may infer that other and perhaps deeper relations exist. Affinity is a mutual attraction with or without seeming likeness; as, the affinity of iron for oxygen. Coincidence is complete agreement in some one or more respects; there may be a coincidence in time of most dissimilar events. Parity of reasoning is said of an argument equally conclusive on subjects not strictly analogous. Similitude is a rhetorical comparison of one thing to another with which it has some points in common. Resemblance and similarity are external or superficial, and may involve no deeper relation; as, the resemblance of a cloud to a distant mountain. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   affinity, coincidence, comparison, likeness, parity, proportion, relation, resemblance, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude

   Antonyms:
   disagreement, disproportion, dissimilarity, incongruity, unlikeness

   Preposition:
   The analogy between (or of) nature and revelation; the analogy of sound to light; a family has some analogy with (or to) a state.

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1. analogy

   Synonyms:
   relation, resemblance, proportion, similarity, similitude, coincidence, affinity, comparison, parity

   Antonyms:
   disproportion, dissimilarity, disharmony, irrelativeness, heterogeneousness, incongruity, inaffinity

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1. analogynoun

   an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

   Synonyms:
   doctrine of analogy

2. analogynoun

   drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

   "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"

   Synonyms:
   doctrine of analogy

3. doctrine of analogy, analogynoun

   the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

   Synonyms:
   doctrine of analogy

Matched Categories

1. • Comparison
   • Inference
   • Religion

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1. analogynoun

   Synonyms:
   similarity (in relations or uses), resemblance, likeness, parallelism, similitude, parity, correspondence

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1. analogynoun

   Synonyms:
   resemblance, similarity, parallelism, agreement, correspondence

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1. List of paraphrases for "analogy":

   mutandis, metaphor, similarity

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1. Marc Leepson:

   The analogy that comes to mind is Confederate statues, most Confederate statues weren't put up right after the Civil War. They were part of the spreading of the Lost Cause Theory, and then Jim Crow and segregation. They had a purpose in the eyes of the public.

2. Bob Bolus:

   I'll give you an analogy of that of a giant boa constrictor, that basically squeezes you, chokes you and it swallows you, and that's what we're going to do the D.C.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

4. Bill Browder:

   With an incredibly bad hand, Vladimir Putin is bluffing the hell out of the West, if this is a poker analogy : Vladimir Putin has a pair of twos, we have a full house and we are folding our cards.

5. Stephen Mihm:

   When we think about the changes that the pandemic has brought in our lives in the past year, there's a tendency to view this as exceptional or unprecedented, where, in fact, there have been previous times where Americans have found themselves with an unexpected amount of time on their hands, the best analogy, really, is the Great Depression.