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Definitions for likening
liken·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
likeningnoun
the act of comparing similarities
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likening
Likening refers to the process of comparing or drawing similarities between two or more things, individuals, situations, or concepts. It involves identifying characteristics or aspects that are common or similar, often to explain or understand something more clearly.
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Likening
of Liken
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of likening in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of likening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of likening in a Sentence
Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.
Chuck Todd has to resort to these kinds of journalistic sleights of hand to get his own views across, he doesnt have to personally express any opinions, he can just approvingly quote other people likening Sanders supporters to Nazis, or Trump fans to Bible-thumping rubes.
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
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