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parallelism

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of parallelism

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 of parallelism

alikeness, community, comparability, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, similarity, similitude

Words Related to parallelism

affinity, analogousness

equation, equivalence, equivalency, par, parity

identicalness, identity, sameness

correlation, relationship

exchangeability, interchangeability

accordance, agreement, compatibility, conformity, congruity

Near Antonyms of parallelism

conflict, polarity

incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

anomalousness, dichotomy

disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence

Antonyms of parallelism

difference, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinctiveness, distinctness, unlikeness

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