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.
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
A disagreement or argument.
An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
The quality of being different.
The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).