parallelism C2+ Topic:Law & Government US /ˈpærəlɛlɪzəm/ UK /ˈpærəlelɪzəm/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun the state of being parallel or of corresponding in structure The rhetorician praised the parallelism of the speech's three clauses. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the state of being parallel... correspondencesimilarityanalogyequivalencesymmetry ↔ Opposites divergencedisparitycontrast Word family Related forms parallelparallelizeparallelogram Etymology AI details From parallel + -ism. Parallel comes from French parallèle, from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallēlos 'side by side', from para 'beside' + allēlois 'one another'. parallēlos Ancient Greek pará Ancient Greek View etymology graph -> Topics Law & Government Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # parallelism **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈpærəlɛlɪzəm/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈpærəlelɪzəm/ ## Meanings 1. the state of being parallel or of corresponding in structure ## Examples - The rhetorician praised the parallelism of the speech's three clauses. ## Synonyms - correspondence - similarity - analogy - equivalence - symmetry ## Antonyms - divergence - disparity - contrast ## Related Forms - parallel - parallelize - parallelogram ## Roots and Affixes - Root: parallēlos - Root: pará ## Etymology From parallel + -ism. Parallel comes from French parallèle, from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallēlos 'side by side', from para 'beside' + allēlois 'one another'. ## AI Etymology Parallelism is from parallel + -ism. Parallel comes from French parallèle, from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallēlos 'side by side', from para 'beside' + allēlois 'one another'. Important recorded forms include parallēlos (Ancient Greek) and pará (Ancient Greek). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers the state of being parallel or of corresponding in structure. The wider family includes related words such as parallel, parallelize, and parallelogram. ## Topics - Law & Government - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown