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analogist

American  
[uh-nal-uh-jist] / əˈnæl ə dʒɪst /

noun

  1. a person who employs or argues from analogy.

  2. a person who seeks analogies.


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Etymology

Origin of analogist

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


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

From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson

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