1. a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification: "an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies"
▪ a correspondence or partial similarity: "the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia"
▪ a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects: "works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"
▪ a process of arguing from similarity in known respects to similarity in other respects: "argument from analogy"
▪ a process by which new words and inflections are created on the basis of regularities in the form of existing ones.
▪ the resemblance of function between organs that have a different evolutionary origin.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.
