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comparison

noun
/kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/UK/kəmˈpɛɹ.ɪ.sən//kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/US

Etymology

From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.

  1. derived from comparātiō
  2. derived from comparison
  3. inherited from comparisoun

Definitions

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

    • to bring a thing into comparison with another
    • there is no comparison between them
    • Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

  2. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some…

    An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.

    • 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.
    • The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.

  3. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.

    • There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs…

      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.

      • In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".

    2. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like

      That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.

      • Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?

    3. A simile.

    4. The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and…

      The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

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Derived

beyond comparison, by comparison, comparing and contrasting, comparison is the thief of joy, comparisonitis, comparison operator, comparisons are odious, comparison shop, comparison-shop, comparison shopper, comparison shopping, comparison-shopping, comparisonwise, degree of comparison, in comparison, intercomparison, limit comparison test, megalocomparison, multicomparison, no comparison, pale by comparison, pale in comparison, recomparison, standard of comparison, suffer by comparison

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comparison. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comparison. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at comparison

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA