comparison
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
Example
“to bring a thing into comparison with another”
Other meanings
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
“He made a careful comparison of the available products before buying anything.”
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
“There really is no comparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.”
Related words
- comparisonitis
- comparisonwise
- intercomparison
- megalocomparison
- multicomparison
- recomparison
- beyond comparison
- by comparison
- comparing and contrasting
- comparison is the thief of joy
- comparison operator
- pale by comparison
Word history
From Latin "comparātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “comparison” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.