analogize

English

Alternative forms

• analogise

Etymology

analogy +‎ -ize

Verb

analogize (third-person singular simple present analogizes, present participle analogizing, simple past and past participle analogized)

1. To express as an analogy.
2. To treat one thing as analogous to another.
   • 2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”:

     Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right.

Derived terms

• analogization