Parallelism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARALLELISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way
• the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc.
• the use of parallel processing
• The quality or state of being parallel.
• Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
• Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.
• similarity by virtue of corresponding
• the belief that matter and mind don't interact but relate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being parallel
• the belief that matter and mind don\'t interact but relate

Words related to PARALLELISM

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Words that contain PARALLELISM

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How to use PARALLELISM in a sentence

• There is a parallelism without identity in the animal and vegetable life of the two continents, which favors the task of comparison in an extraordinary manner.
• Modern science has much insisted on this parallelism, and to a certain extent is allowed to have made it out.
• But it distinctly appears in the Kiche which I shall quote on a later page, and is also in close parallelism with the hero-myths of Yucatan, Peru and elsewhere.
• The parallelism is not less striking in the case of certain other mystic philosophers of the East.
• In reply, I have received three noteworthy instances, but none to be compared in their exact parallelism with that just given.
• The south aisle is 6 feet narrower than the north at the west end, but its want of parallelism adds 7 feet to its width at its far eastern end.
• By standing within either transept and looking up at the roof the want of parallelism of the walls and other irregularities are plainly seen.
• And generally, excepting in the parallelism of their sides, buildings seem placed with but slight regard to neighboring ones.
• The parallelism of logical movements in the different fields especially becomes more obvious in the graphic form.
• It is also used in medicine In a chemical point of view it is very interesting, from its similarity in properties, and the parallelism of its compounds to chlorine and iodine.
• The lyric order appears sharply developed here in the parallelism of the two stanzas.
• It is probable that the most primitive Anglo-Saxon verse was identical with prose, and consisted merely of sentences bound together by parallelism.
• Some of them were as straight as if laid out with a line, others were curved a little here and there, though still maintaining the strict parallelism of their sides.
• The general parallelism of the Boy Bishop customs and the Feast of Fools is obvious, and no doubt they had much the same folk-origin.
• Indeed, a parallelism exists throughout their respective works.
• The parallelism is perfect even to individual cases, if children of various ages are carefully observed in regard to their acquirement of speech.
• Here, as in other ruins of Tusayan, the arrangement about inclosed courts is in contrast with the parallelism of rows, so noticeable a feature in the occupied villages.
• A certain parallelism in the sentences or groups of characters has also been discovered.
• But when I had heard his account, I began to suspect that there was something more than mere parallelism of method.
• One of the most puzzling cases of phonetic parallelism is afforded by a large number of American Indian languages spoken west of the Rockies.
• There is parallelism between the eye and the voice.
• It is very important to establish this parallelism between the movements of the brow and voice.
• It may seem fanciful, but I suspect that a similar parallelism extends to an allied yet very different class of facts.
• I cannot persuade myself that this parallelism is an accident or an illusion.
• All the impulses of humanity they bent to a kindly parallelism with it.
• There is in force a principle called the law of parallelism in development, according to which any group takes much the same steps in development as any other.
• It was not so much a parallelism of aims and hopes, for the struggle in England was political and not national as in South Africa, as of temperament, character, and method.
• But more remarkable than this is the parallelism between the two verses.

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