The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
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) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
A simile.
The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.