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. Jerry Brown:

   I think it was a different period, but I've seen the press trying to make that analogy thing. I think we are in a different period.

2. Chris Harrison:

   This particular piece of work on the Teacup Galaxy has provided new insight into how the black holes [drive energy] in ordinary galaxies, they appear to be capable of driving jets of charged particles that collide into the gas. You could imagine the ‘jet’ as like a water cannon being driven into a crowd of people - the water cannon collides with the crowd and causes it to break up and disperse rapidly. In this analogy, the crowd represents the gas in the galaxy that is trying to form stars, but is destroyed by the jet.

3. Tyler Robinson:

   For the worlds where our current best explanation for their flat spectra is a planet-wide haze layer, though, our observations show that Titan's haze isn't a good analogy for whatever makes up the haze on these distant worlds, some other kind of haze, with different properties for interacting with light, could explain the flat spectrum.

4. Alex Greninger:

   A remora is not like the best analogy, but it's sort of like that. It's got to have a host virus.

5. Jeff Shesol:

   There are very few partnerships of such a public nature. I think that the analogy is real and it's relevant.