Tawriyah centers on the two senses of one word and the intention of the remote sense. Kināyah leads from an expression toward a concomitant implication, potentially without ruling out the literal sense. Īhām al-tanāsub creates a seeming affinity between another word and an unintended lexical sense.
FigureMain criterion
TawriyahRemote sense intended
KināyahConcomitant implication
Apparent congruityAffinity through an unintended sense
A word’s having multiple senses is not by itself enough to prove any of these analyses.