Usually means: Comparing one thing to another.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. likening: Merriam-Webster
  2. likening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. likening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Likening, likening: Wordnik
  5. likening: Wiktionary
  6. Likening, likening: Dictionary.com
  7. Likening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. likening: Rhymezone
  9. Likening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. likening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. likening: FreeDictionary.org
  12. likening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. likening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. likening: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (likening)

▸ noun:  The act by which things are likened; a comparison.

Similar:
compare, equate, resemblance, comparison, comparand, analogy, simility, similitude, semblable, parallel, more...

Opposite:
dislike, disapprove, detest, abhor, loathe

Adjectives:
metaphorical, old, famous, earlier, active, frequent

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Similar:
compare, equate, resemblance, comparison, comparand, analogy, simility, similitude, semblable, parallel, more...

Opposite:
dislike, disapprove, detest, abhor, loathe

Adjectives:
metaphorical, old, famous, earlier, active, frequent



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