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parallelism

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par·al·lel·ism  (pr-l-lzm)
n.
1. The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.
2. Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.
3. Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.
4. Philosophy The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.

parallelism [ˈpærəlɛˌlɪzəm]
n
1. the state of being parallel
2. (Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar the repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect
3. (Philosophy) Philosophy the dualistic doctrine that mental and physical processes are regularly correlated but are not causally connected, so that, for example, pain always accompanies, but is not caused by, a pin-prick Compare interactionism, occasionalism
parallelist  n & adj

parallelism
the quality of being parallel.
See also: Mathematics
the theory that mind and matter accompany each other but are not causally related.
See also: Philosophy
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.parallelism - similarity by virtue of corresponding
similarity - the quality of being similar
Translations
parallelism [ˈpærəlelɪzəm] Nparalelismo m
parallelism
n (of lines)Parallelität f; (of cases also)Ähnlichkeit f


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The modern doctrine of psychophysical parallelism is not appreciably different from this theory of the Cartesian school.
In this way the curious parallelism to animal motions, which was so striking and disturbing to the human beholder, was attained.
Around a great fire which burned on a large, circular flagstone, the flames of which had heated red-hot the legs of a tripod, which was empty for the moment, some wormeaten tables were placed, here and there, haphazard, no lackey of a geometrical turn having deigned to adjust their parallelism, or to see to it that they did not make too unusual angles.
 
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