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IMAGINATIVE COMPARISON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does imaginative comparison mean?
• IMAGINATIVE COMPARISON (noun)
The noun IMAGINATIVE COMPARISON has 1 sense:
1. the kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories
Familiarity information: IMAGINATIVE COMPARISON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• IMAGINATIVE COMPARISON (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("imaginative comparison" is a kind of...):
comparison (relation based on similarities and differences)
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