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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcomparisoun, fromOld Frenchcomparison, fromLatincomparātiō, fromcomparātus, perfect passive participle ofcomparō.

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Noun

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comparison (countable anduncountable,pluralcomparisons)

  1. The act ofcomparing or the state or process of beingcompared.
    to bring a thing intocomparison with another;  there is nocomparison between them
    • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow thatcomparisons are meaningless.
  2. Anevaluation of thesimilarities anddifferences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
    He made a carefulcomparison of the available products before buying anything.
    • 1841,Thomas Macaulay,Warren Hastings:
      As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear acomparison with them.
    • 1850,Richard Chenevix Trench,Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
      The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points ofcomparison.
    • 1909,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, inThe Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company, published1919,→OCLC:
      "I don't want to spoil anycomparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. […]"
  3. With anegation, the state of beingsimilar oralike.
    There really is nocomparison between the performance of today's computers and those of a decade ago.
  4. (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
    In English, adjectives and adverbs have three forms when making acomparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest".
  5. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
  6. (rhetoric) Asimile.
  7. (phrenology) Thefaculty of thereflective group which is supposed to perceiveresemblances andcontrasts.

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Translations

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act of comparing or the state of being compared
evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
state of being similar or alike
ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
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Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatincomparātiō.[1]

Noun

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comparisonoblique singular, f (oblique pluralcomparisons,nominative singularcomparison,nominative pluralcomparisons)

  1. comparison (instance of comparing two or more things)

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References

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  1. ^Etymology and history of “comparaison”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
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