Parallelism

Quick meaning: Parallelism is a noun meaning The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.

Meaning

The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.

More Meanings

1. The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
2. A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
3. (computing) The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
4. (rhetoric, grammar) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
5. (philosophy) The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.
6. (law) In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.
7. (biology) Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.

Example Sentences

Plutarch (c. AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.

Word Forms

• parallelisms

Synonyms for parallelism

Depending on context, synonyms include correspondence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include correspondence, parallel, comparison, concordance, similarity, equivalence.

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