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degree of comparison

grammatical feature of adjectives or adverbs which indicates the intensity of a specific feature, usually positive, comparative or superlative
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Summary

degree of comparison is a grammatical category[1]. It draws 469 Wikipedia views per month (grammatical category category, ranking #6 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: number of entities[3]
  • Said to be the same as: comparison[4]
  • Described at URL: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199675128.001.0001/acref-9780199675128-e-827[5], https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780192800619.001.0001/acref-9780192800619-e-336[6]
  • Facet of: comparison[7]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Degree[8], http://purl.org/olia/olia-top.owl#DegreeFeature[9], http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Degree[10]

Why It Matters

degree of comparison is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 1
    Wikipedia languages → ['en']
    Equivalent class → http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Degree, http://purl.org/olia/olia-top.owl#DegreeFeature, http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Degree
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/olia/olia-top.owl#DegreeFeature"
  2. 6w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → comparison
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: comparison"
  3. 16w ago · QwertyZ34 · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → comparison
    Equivalent class → http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo#Degree, http://purl.org/olia/olia-top.owl#DegreeFeature, http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#Degree
    Isocat id → 1419
    Described at url → https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: number of entities"
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