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LIKENING
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb liken