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Definition of Analogy

1. Noun. An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.

2. Noun. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect. "The models show by analogy how matter is built up"

3. Noun. 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.

Definition of Analogy

1. n. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Definition of Analogy

1. Noun. A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Analogy

1. resemblance in some respects between things otherwise unlike [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Analogy

1. Two anatomical structures or behavioural traits within different and unrelated organisms which perform the same functions in each organism but which did not originate from an ancestral structure or trait that the organisms' ancestors had in common. Instead, the structures or traits arose separately and then later evolved to perform the same function (or similar functions). See: convergent evolution. Compare: homology. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Analogy

analogized analogizes analogizing analogon analogons analogous analogously analogousness analogousnesses analogs

analogue analogue computer analogue hole analogue watch analogues analogy (current term) analphabet analphabetic analphabetics analphabetism

analphabetisms analphabets analphalipoproteinaemia analvos analysability analysable analysand analysands analysation analyse

Literary usage of Analogy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(3) Such agreement in relationship between two objects as gives real or apparent warrant for an argument from analogy, in logic (qv). ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"that the study of the ' analogy ' formed an ' era in his religious opinions. ... The analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"analogy IN THE LANGUAGES OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. ... The analogy between the cranberry and the apple is not at all confined to the American Indian. ..."

4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Unfortunately restless and inquisitive infidels have insisted upon stirring up difficulties, to meet which ' the doctrine of the divine analogy has now ..."

5. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"This is perhaps the most prominent feature in the whole of his political thought ; and the demand that, on the analogy of aü other " artists," the statesman ..."

6. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"analogy between business profits and rent. A similar analogy in other occupations. How far the element of risk vitiates the analogy, — Sec. 2. ..."

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