>>>If you are comparing things
>>>
>>>doing a comparison
>>>
>>>is there a word for what you are comparing
>>>
>>>The reason I ask is that someone just asked me how you spell comparisant and I don't think thats a word.
>>nor is 'supremacist'
>
>Supremacist is a word, isn't it?

The uneducated media invented the word. Supremist is correct. Trust me, I'm not trying to be an extremacist on this issue. :))