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UK
/ɐnˈælədʒi/
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[ US /əˈnæɫədʒi/ ]
[ US /əˈnæɫədʒi/ ]
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
- an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
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drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
the models show by analogy how matter is built up
the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain
How To Use analogy In A Sentence
- Finally, I think that Wright, who has written a good deal about evolution, is missing a basic evolutionary analogy.
- There is no distinct boundary between the perceived and the apperceived, and Wundt's analogy may be misleading [50] to the extent that it gives the impression of two separable forms of attention able in principle to subsist together simultaneously (that is, apperception focusing upon a point in the perceptual field while that field continues to be perceived). Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
- In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
- Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
- When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of past experience.
- It may be a dubious analogy, but just say that reading a novel is something like going on a ride at the midway.
- She drew an analogy between childbirth and the creative process.
- Our experience of how human minds work provides an analogy to how a primeval, creator mind probably worked.
- He uses hectic fever as an analogy - as hectic fever is to the body, political maladies are to a state.
