COMPARISON

Comparison

Comparison is a feature in the grammar of some languages, whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected or modified to produce forms which indicate the relative degree of the designated properties.

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comparison

Noun

  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
  2. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
  3. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
  4. The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
  5. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
  6. simile
  7. The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.


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