<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.</li><li>Synonyms: affinity, similitude, resemblance, likeness, comparison.</li><li>similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between your problem and mine.</li><li>Synonyms: correspondence.</li><li>Biology: an analogous relationship.</li><li>Linguistics: the process by which words or phrases are created or re-formed according to existing patterns in the language, as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize is added to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when a child says foots for feet.</li><li>a form resulting from such a process.</li><li>Logic: a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects.</li></ul>