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parallelistic

parallelistic adjective: of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

Adjective

parallelistic (comparative more parallelistic, superlative most parallelistic)

  1. Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
    • the antithetic or parallelistic form of the Hebrew poetry is entirely lost1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity

Forms of parallelistic

comparativemore parallelistic
superlativemost parallelistic

Origin of parallelistic

From parallel + -istic.

Questions about parallelistic

What does parallelistic mean?
Parallelistic means of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
What part of speech is parallelistic?
Parallelistic is an adjective.

Words near parallelistic in the dictionary

  1. parallelises
  2. parallelising
  3. parallelism
  4. parallelisms
  5. parallelist
  6. parallelistic
  7. parallelists
  8. parallelity
  9. parallelizability
  10. parallelizable
  11. parallelization

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