comparisons
- 1Plural of comparison.
The report drew careful comparisons between this year's results and last year's.
Critics made unflattering comparisons between the sequel and the original film.
Note
A regular -s plural, used when comparing is counted rather than treated as an activity. Each comparison is then a separate thing: an evaluation of likeness and difference, a simile in rhetoric, or a thing set beside another as its equal. In grammar the plural names the degrees an adjective or adverb is inflected for. When the meaning is the act or process itself, the singular is the natural choice.
comparisons is a form of comparison
comparison, noun: An evaluation of how one or more things are similar to and different from one another. Full entry
- Forms
- comparisoncomparisons plural
- Spelling
- comparison → comparisons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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