Synonyms of parallelism

parallelism

noun

ˈper-ə-ˌle-ˌli-zəm 

as in similarity

the quality or state of having many qualities in common

the striking parallelism between the two crimes got police to thinking that they were committed by the same mastermind

Synonyms & Similar Words

• similarity
• resemblance
• comparability
• similitude
• correspondence
• alikeness
• likeness
• correlation
• affinity
• equivalence
• parity
• community
• equation
• interchangeability
• equivalency
• semblance
• relationship
• identity
• compatibility
• analogousness
• identicalness
• sameness
• accordance
• exchangeability
• agreement
• congruity
• conformity
• par

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disparity
• difference
• distinctness
• discrepancy
• dissimilarity
• inequality
• distinctiveness
• disagreement
• unlikeness
• polarity
• conflict
• incompatibility
• dissimilitude
• incongruity
• incongruence
• disparateness
• nonconformity
• dichotomy
• differentiability
• discriminability
• imbalance
• disproportion
• incongruousness
• distinguishability
• anomalousness
• nonequivalence

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of parallelism

But Lost Records evades too close a parallelism to Paper Girls by also mixing in familiar elements from Showtime’s Yellowjackets, which transpires in 1996, focusing on a group of teenagers fighting for survival after a plane crash. —Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025

In quantum computing, the concept of parallelism leverages superposition. —Gregory Crawford, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

The beauty is that not only does this tend to keep the AI honest in terms of figuring out the proper steps, but the AI can also process the execution of the steps in parallel, assuming the AI is set up for parallelism. —Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

Enterprises are actively seeking alternatives to legacy systems that struggle with high parallelism and metadata-intensive workloads. —Steve McDowell, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025