Comparison limits one due for development (10)
I believe the answer is:
similitude
'comparison' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'limits one due for development' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'for development' indicates an anagram.
'limits'+'i'+'due'='limitsidue'
'limitsidue' is an anagram of 'SIMILITUDE'.
(Other definitions for similitude that I've seen before include "Nearly identical quality" , "Correspondence" .)