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parallelism
noun par·al·lel·ism \ˈpa-rə-ˌle-ˌli-zəm, -lə-ˌli-\
: the fact of being similar in development or form
Full Definition of PARALLELISM
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: the quality or state of being parallel
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: repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect
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: a theory that mind and matter accompany one another but are not causally related
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: the independent development of a similar trait in related species or lineages following divergence from a common ancestor
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parallelism
noun par·al·lel·ism \ˈpar-ə-ˌlel-ˌiz-əm, -ləl-\
Medical Definition of PARALLELISM
: a philosophical or psychological doctrine that there is a one-to-one correspondence between events in the mind and events in the brain but that the two sets of events exist without interacting in a causal way—called also psychophysical parallelism
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