community vs comparison

community

noun
  • The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common. 

  • A residential or religious collective; a commune. 

  • A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. 

  • A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition. 

  • A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community. 

  • A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England. 

comparison

noun
  • An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other. 

  • The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. 

  • That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. 

  • The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. 

  • A simile. 

  • With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. 

  • A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe. 

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