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analogy   (TTS Sound)

The noun analogy has 3 senses

• analogy -- (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others)


• analogy -- (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"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up")


• doctrine of analogy, analogy -- (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)