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ANALOGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does analogist mean?
• ANALOGIST (noun)
The noun ANALOGIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy
Familiarity information: ANALOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("analogist" is a kind of...):
ratiocinator; reasoner (someone who reasons logically)
Derivation:
analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect)
analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others)
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