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Word: Analogism
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century; earliest use found in Walter Charleton (1620–1707), physician and natural philosopher. From post-classical Latin analogismus and its etymon ancient Greek ἀναλογισμός proportionate calculation (from ἀναλογίζεσθαι to reckon up, sum up, to calculate, to consider from ἀνάλογος + -ίζεσθαι) + -ισμός
The action or practice of reasoning by analogy; an instance of this. Compare "analogy".
Mathematical proportion; a proportional.
Diagnosis or treatment of one disease by analogy with another.
