equating

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of equate

noun

1. The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.

   “But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms.”