parallelism

C2+ Topic:Abstract Ideas

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.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the state of being parallel... correspondence similarity analogy equivalence symmetry

Opposites

divergence disparity contrast

Word family

Related forms parallelparallelizeparallelogram

Etymology

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

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Abstract Ideas Word Formation & Derivatives

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# 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
- Abstract Ideas
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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