parallelism
/ˈpaɹəlɛlɪz(ə)m/
parallelism noun: the state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
Noun
parallelism (countable and uncountable, plural parallelisms)
- The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
- The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
- 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.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29
- A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
- The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
- 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.
- 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.
- Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
- The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
parallelism meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Tagalog
parallelism in Tamil
- இணைச் செயற்பாடு, ஒரு போக்கு நிலை, ஒரு போக்குத்தன்மை, ஒரு வழி, சமாந்தரம், சமாந்தரத்தன்மை
parallelism in Bengali
- সমান্তরালতা, সাদৃশ্য
parallelism in Kannada
- ಸಾದೃಶ್ಯ, ಅನುರೂಪತೆ, ಸಮಾಂತರತೆ, ಸರಿತೆರಪು, ದೊರೆ, ಹೋಲಿಕೆ
parallelism in Tagalog
- state or condition of being parallel
- kaagapayan
- agreement, similarity, resemblance
- kaagapayan
Examples of parallelism in a sentence
- This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.
- Coordinate constructions represent the special case of symmetry, parallelism, and coequality among the component clauses.
- Among the latter is the type of word-play known as polysemous parallelism, or more commonly, Janus parallelism.
Forms of parallelism
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Origin of parallelism
From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
Words formed from parallelism
Questions about parallelism
- What does parallelism mean?
- Parallelism means the state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
- What is parallelism in Tamil?
- Parallelism in Tamil is இணைச் செயற்பாடு, ஒரு போக்கு நிலை, ஒரு போக்குத்தன்மை. See Parallelism meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is parallelism?
- Parallelism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce parallelism?
- Parallelism is pronounced /ˈpaɹəlɛlɪz(ə)m/ (UK).
- What is the plural of parallelism?
- The plural of parallelism is parallelisms.
Words near parallelism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: parallelism (page history and authors); parallelism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Parallelism (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parallelism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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