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Analogy vs Kindred - What's the difference?

analogy | kindred |

As nouns the difference between analogy and kindred

is that analogy is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation while kindred is distant and close relatives, collectively.

As an adjective kindred is

of the same nature.

analogy

English

(wikipedia analogy)

Noun

(analogies)
  • A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
  • * 1841 , , Essays: First Series , ch. 6:
    • Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
  • * 1869 , , The Uncommercial Traveller , ch. 18:
    • Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
  • * 1901 , , The Valley of Decision , ch. 12:
    • The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
  • * 1983 , " How to Write Programs," Time , 3 Jan.:
    • Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
  • * 2002 , , Gone for Good , ISBN 9780440236733, p. 75:
    • A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.

    Derived terms

    * disanalogy * false analogy

    Related terms

    * analogue

    See also

    * metaphor * simile * example * homology * parable * parallelism English words prefixed with ana-

    kindred

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively. (rfex)
  • (often, plural only) Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren. (rfex)
  • (countable) A grouping of relatives.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I think there's no man is secure / But the queen's kindred .

    Synonyms

    * (people of same ethnic descent) brethren, kinship

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A combination of extended family and religious group, of the religious order in America.

    • Synonyms

    * Hearth * Garth * Stead

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the same nature.
  • * 1924 , , Metaphysics , translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.
    • We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;

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