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say it: uh-NAL-uh-jee
analogy is a noun meaning "an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others". It is pronounced /əˈnælədʒi/ — uh-NAL-uh-jee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
“the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain”
“the models show by analogy how matter is built up”
the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for analogy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.