(often + to/with) similar in some respects
a kind of numbing affect analogous to the paralysing influence of fear — Roger Fry
said of plant or animal parts: similar in function but having evolved separately and distinctly. The wings of insects and the wings of birds are analogous structures: compare homologous
analogously adv
analogousness noun
[via Latin from Greek analogos proportionate, from ana- + logos reason, ratio]