Connotation vs Comparison - What's the difference?
connotation | comparison |
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation .
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
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* (1800-1859)
*:As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them.
*(Richard Chenevix Trench) (1807-1886)
*:The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison .
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*:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ΒΆ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
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(label) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest .
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
*(Bible), (w) iv. 30
*:Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it?
(label) A simile.
(label) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
As nouns the difference between connotation and comparison
is that connotation is a meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in while comparison is the act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.connotation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
- The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).
Antonyms
* denotationSynonyms
* intensionReferences
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comparison
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Noun
(en noun)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}