ANALOGIST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)