Parallelism Definition

părə-lĕ-lĭzəm
parallelisms
noun
parallelisms
The state of being parallel.
Webster's New World
Close resemblance; similarity.
Webster's New World
The use of parallel structure in writing.
Webster's New World
The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.
American Heritage
An instance of this.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Parallelism

Noun

Singular:
parallelism
Plural:
parallelisms

Origin of Parallelism

  • From parallel +"Ž -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.

    From Wiktionary

Parallelism Sentence Examples

  • In both these rites we seem to have a duplication of ritual, and the parallelism of sacrifice and liberation is clear.

  • Although there is no direct genetic affinity between the spiders of these two groups, an interesting parallelism in their habits may be traced.

  • Parallelism of mountain ridges and intervening valleys is thus attributable to the folding of the rocks, but the origin of the interior structure of the mountains is to be kept distinct from the origin of the mountains as features of topography.

  • To the law of " recapitulation " he unfortunately applied Hyatt's term " parallelism," a term which is used now in another sense.

  • These were without rhyme or rhythm, but had alliteration and a parallelism resembling Hebrew poetry.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAR

Words Ending With

MSMISM

Unscrambles

parallelism

Words Starting With P and Ending With M

Starts With P & Ends With MStarts With PA & Ends With MStarts With P & Ends With SM

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With P11 Letter Words Ending With M