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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who makes, looks for, or reasons from analogies.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who employs or argues from analogy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who reasons from analogy, or represents by an analogy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy

Etymologies

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analogy +‎ -ist

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