PARALLELISM Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Recent Examples of parallelism Our hope was to use the unusual and unfortunate parallelism between our stories to start an inter-campus dialogue, and to contribute the results of that dialogue to the ongoing discourse on gun violence—and desperately needed gun control—in our communities. —

Hazlitt, 25 Feb. 2026 By reducing tensor parallelism from eight-way to four-way, each GPU performed more computation locally rather than coordinating across the full server. —

Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026 This parallelism may be a hint as to why spatial expressions are used widely in a social context. —

Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025 This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler. —

Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parallelism

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One enterprise might share similarities with another, but no two businesses are exactly alike.

— Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 1 May 2026
Fans are flipping out over the similarities between Hilary Duff and You star Victoria Pedretti — who plays the on-screen love interest (literally named Love) of Penn Badgley's Joe.

— Laura Lane, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026