different between comparison vs unlikeness
comparison
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French comparison, from Latin compar?ti?, from compar?tus, perfect passive participle of compar?.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?m?p???s?n/, /k?m?pæ??s?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?m?pæ??s?n/
Noun
comparison (countable and uncountable, plural comparisons)
- The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
- An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
- 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings
- As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.
- 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
- The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"
- 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings
- With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
- (grammar) 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.
- That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- (rhetoric) A simile.
- (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
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Translations
Anagrams
- panic rooms
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compar?ti?.
Noun
comparison f (oblique plural comparisons, nominative singular comparison, nominative plural comparisons)
- comparison (instance of comparing two or more things)
Descendants
- ? English: comparison
- French: comparaison
- Norman: compathaison
References
comparison From the web:
- what comparison is implied at the end of the novel
- what comparison mean
- what comparison is used to describe the soup
unlikeness
English
Etymology
unlike +? -ness
Noun
unlikeness (countable and uncountable, plural unlikenesses)
- (uncountable) the state of being unlike
- (countable) an unlike characteristic
Translations
unlikeness From the web:
- what does likeness mean
- what does unlikeness
- what does the word likeness mean
- what is the meaning of likeness
- what does true likeness mean
- what does likeness mean in the bible
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