LIKENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does likening mean? 

• LIKENING (noun)
  The noun LIKENING has 1 sense:

1. the act of comparing similarities

  Familiarity information: LIKENING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIKENING (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)

 Context examples 

The proposal was a very pleasant one to William himself, who enjoyed the idea of travelling post with four horses, and such a good-humoured, agreeable friend; and, in likening it to going up with despatches, was saying at once everything in favour of its happiness and dignity which his imagination could suggest; and Fanny, from a different motive, was exceedingly pleased; for the original plan was that William should go up by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would not have allowed him an hour's rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of Mr. Crawford's would rob her of many hours of his company, she was too happy in having William spared from the fatigue of such a journey, to think of anything else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)