analogy vs comparing

analogy and comparing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
analogy	Yes	No	No	No
comparing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, comparing is a hypernym of analogy; that is, comparing is a word with a broader meaning than analogy:

Other hypernyms of analogy include comparison.

analogy (noun)	comparing (noun)
drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect	the act of examining resemblances
an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
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