disanalogy

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noun

A lack or failure of analogy.

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Meanings

noundisanalogy (countable and uncountable, plural disanalogies)

plural disanalogies

  1. countableuncountableA lack or failure of analogy.

    In addition, there would appear to be an important disanalogy between the case of mathematics and the case of philosophy.

    2008 December 6, Sanford C. Goldberg, “Reliabilism in philosophy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI
    1. countableuncountableA false analogy.

Origin

From dis- + analogy.

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