Equating

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.

    "But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms."

  2. 2
    the act of regarding as equal wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of equate form-of, gerund, participle, present

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accommodationadjustmentcoordinationequalizingequationequation

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"Stalin killed people like Bernie Sanders; equating the two is ignorant at best, cynical at worst."

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