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Likening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which things are likened; a comparison.

    "I sometimes, in musing mood, find myself making spontaneous likenings of inanimate to animate nature, comparing the qualities of things to the qualities of men[…]"

  2. 2
    the act of comparing similarities wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of liken form-of, gerund, participle, present

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