analogist

[uh-nal-uh-jist]

noun

1. a person who employs or argues from analogy.

2. a person who seeks analogies.

Other Word Forms

• analogistic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of analogist¹

First recorded in 1830–40; analog(ize) + -ist

Example Sentences

These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects.

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The various kinds of tracts have different times for becoming "myelinated" as was the discovery of the great analogist, Flechsig.

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