comparison
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
Noun 4 meanings
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
“to bring a thing into comparison with another”
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.”
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.
Etymology
From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.
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COMPARISON at a glance
COMPARISON has 10 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + M 3 + P 3 + A 1 + R 1 + I 1 + S 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 20 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,873 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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