Analogy vs. Simile

Analogynoun

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

Analogynoun

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.

Analogynoun

A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

Analogynoun

Proportion; equality of ratios.

Analogynoun

Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.

Analogynoun

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

Analogynoun

drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect;

Analogynoun

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

Analogynoun

a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification

Analogynoun

a correspondence or partial similarity

Analogynoun

a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects

Analogynoun

a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects

Analogynoun

a process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones.

Analogynoun

the resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin.

Analogy

Analogy (from Greek ἀναλογία, analogia, , from ana- [also , ] + logos [also ]) is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analog, or source) to another (the target), or a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, in which at least one of the premises, or the conclusion, is general rather than particular in nature.

Similenoun

A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.

Similenoun

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

Similenoun

a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

Simile

A simile () is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from other metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as , , , or , while other metaphors create an implicit comparison (i.e.