Words often have more than one definition, and therefore more than one meaning.
Today I studied the different definitions listed below.
Meriam websters: the act or process of comparing: such as
a : the representing of one thing or person as similar to or like another
- His poetry invites comparison with the poems of Robert Frost.
b : an examination of two or more items to establish similarities and dissimilarities
- to regard as similar; liken to: to compare life to a river
- to examine in order to observe or discover similarities or differences: often followed by with: compare their voting records
- GRAM.to form the comparative and superlative degrees of (an adjective or adverb)
the act of examining resemblances
Your Dictionary: a comparing or being compared; estimation of similarities and differences.
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comparison(noun)
relation based on similarities and differences
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comparison, compare, equivalence, comparability(noun)
Princeton Dictionary:
1. variable noun
When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
…a comparison of the Mexican and Guatemalan economies.
Its recommendations are based on detailed comparisons between the public and private sectors.
2. countable noun
When you make a comparison, you say that one thing is like another in some way.
It is demonstrably an unfair comparison.
In the search for the different definitions of comparison, I thought it would be interesting to identify the antonyms as well.
Elizabeth Beeli 