comparison

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō. === Pronunciation === enPR: kəmpăr'ĭsən: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada) IPA(key): /kəmˈpɛɹ.ɪ.sən/ (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ (nonstandard, corresponding to the misspelling comparision) enPR: kəmpăr'ĭshən, IPA(key): /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.ʃən/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kəmˈpɛɹ.ə.sən/ === Noun === comparison (countable and uncountable, plural comparisons) The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. Synonym: parallel An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. (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 a comparison: the plain form "hot", the comparative form "hotter", and the superlative form "hottest". That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. (rhetoric) A simile. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. ==== Hypernyms ==== (grammar): inflection ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === panic rooms == Old French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin comparātiō. === Noun === comparison oblique singular, f (oblique plural comparisons, nominative singular comparison, nominative plural comparisons) comparison (instance of comparing two or more things) ==== Descendants ==== → English: comparison French: comparaison Norman: compathaison === References ===