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analogizing

analogizing is the present participle and gerund of analogize.

Meaning of analogize

Verb

analogize (third-person singular simple present analogizes, present participle analogizing, simple past and past participle analogized)

  1. To express as an analogy.
    • The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
  2. (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.
    • Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a...2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times

Noun

analogizing (plural analogizings)

  1. The drawing of an analogy.

Forms of analogizing

pluralanalogizings

Questions about analogizing

What does analogizing mean?
Analogizing means the drawing of an analogy.
What is analogizing the present participle and gerund of?
Analogizing is the present participle and gerund of analogize.
What part of speech is analogizing?
Analogizing is a noun.
What is the plural of analogizing?
The plural of analogizing is analogizings.

Words near analogizing in the dictionary

  1. analogize
  2. analogized
  3. analogizer
  4. analogizers
  5. analogizes
  6. analogizing
  7. analogizings
  8. analogly
  9. analogon
  10. analogons
  11. analogous

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