Noun

(uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
'''Aemulation''' was ' similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

(countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
' Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.

(countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.

* Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!

If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.

A parable or allegory.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:

And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].

Noun

(en noun)

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= 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.}}

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." ¶ "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.