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Comparable vs Correlative - What's the difference?

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Comparable is a related term of correlative.


As adjectives the difference between comparable and correlative

is that comparable is able to be compared (to) while correlative is .

As a noun comparable

is something suitable for comparison.

comparable

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Able to be compared (to).
  • Similar (to); like.
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  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
  • (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
  • (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something suitable for comparison.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?, New York Times citation
  • , passage=And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables , because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. }} ----

    correlative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • mutually related; corresponding
  • * '>citation
  • If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently
    game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish be-
    tween primary and secondary gains disappears. The correla-
    tive
    necessity to estimate the relative significance of physio-
    logical needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and
    of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes.
    Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human
    social life without specified rules for dealing with them, in-
    stinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biologi-
    cal rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psycho-
    social significance—that is, as parts of the game.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two correlative things.
  • (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu'' ‘who’ (which person?), ''iu'' ‘someone’ (some person), ''tie'' ‘there’ (that place), '' ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.