analogy

Noun

• the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

• drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
  • the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain
    
  • the models show by analogy how matter is built up
    

• an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

Related words

• Antonyms: 
  apophatism , cataphatism