LIKENING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of comparing similarities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("likening" is a kind of...):

comparing; comparison (the act of examining resemblances)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb liken

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