analogy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
Types & categories
- inference hypernym
Related & opposite
- analogist derivation
- analogize derivation
- analogical derivation
- correspondent derivation
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- comparison hypernym
Related & opposite
- analogist derivation
- analogize derivation
- analogical derivation
- correspondent derivation
Sense 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
Types & categories
- faith hypernym
Related & opposite
- apophatism antonym
- cataphatism antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogical |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | correspondent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | inference |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogical |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | correspondent |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | comparison |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | apophatism |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | cataphatism |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | faith |