as in similarity
the quality or state of having many qualities in common
there's little comparability between the two vehicles: one's basic transportation and the other's a luxurious salon on wheels
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Recent Examples of comparability
The print is harmonized across the euro zone for comparability.
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Chloe Taylor,ganesh Rao, CNBC, 30 May 2025
To ensure consistency and comparability, the analysis focuses exclusively on driver tee shots hit on par 4 and par 5 holes, according to Arccos, capturing total yardage (carry distance plus rollout) without normalization for conditions such as weather, turf or elevation.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Ensuring consistency and comparability during CTs can be further complicated by intricate production processes.
—Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
The country's consumer price index, harmonized for comparability across the euro zone, had come in at 2.3% in March on an annual basis.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Taylor,ganesh Rao, CNBC, 30 May 2025
To ensure consistency and comparability, the analysis focuses exclusively on driver tee shots hit on par 4 and par 5 holes, according to Arccos, capturing total yardage (carry distance plus rollout) without normalization for conditions such as weather, turf or elevation.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Ensuring consistency and comparability during CTs can be further complicated by intricate production processes.
—Avik Pal, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
The country's consumer price index, harmonized for comparability across the euro zone, had come in at 2.3% in March on an annual basis.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for comparability
Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparability
Noun
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There’s not much similarity between the two iterations.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 July 2025
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The photos accompanying the post are mostly side-by-sides of Brown with Yazdi and then Brown with Scott, as if to highlight the similarities between the two relationships.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Congress funded the missions and may fund them again Presidential budget proposals are wish lists that often bear little resemblance to final congressional budgets.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
4 Aug. 2025
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Her playing has little resemblance to the predictable, nasal assaults that one usually associates with bagpipe music.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Comparability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparability. Accessed 9 Aug. 2025.
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