What does "analogist" mean?
Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
Analogist
adj, noun
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Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
- Grammar: analogist is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: analogy maker, analogy practitioner, analogy researcher, analogy specialist.
- Useful contrasts: literalist.
- Usage evidence: those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
"those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament"
- 2 someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy wordnet
- 3 An adherent of analogism.
"The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience."
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to analogism, as opposed to anomalism.
- 2 Pertaining to analogism.
"This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,"
Synonyms
All synonyms analogy makeranalogy practitioneranalogy researcheranalogy specialistanalogy theoristanalogy user
Antonyms
Example
"those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "analogist"?
Common synonyms include: analogy maker, analogy practitioner, analogy researcher, analogy specialist, analogy theorist, analogy user.
How do you use "analogist" in a sentence?
those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament
Etymology
From analogy + -ist.