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n. The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.

n. Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.

n. Grammar The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.

n. Philosophy The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.

n. The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.

n. The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.

n. A parallel position; the relation of parallels.

n. The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.

n. The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.

n. In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.

n. Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.

n. The quality or state of being parallel.

n. Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.

n. Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.

n. A parallel position, in any sense of the word parallel.

n. The retention by a moving line of positions parallel to one another.

n. Analogy.

n. Specifically The correspondence resulting from the repetition of the same sentiment or imagery, sense, or grammatical construction: a marked feature of Hebrew poetry.

n. A parallel or comparison.

n. The opinion that the relation between the brain and the mind, although it is one of concomitant variation, is not the relation of cause and effect; the opinion that mental process and brain process are parallel events, and that they do not interact.

n. In evolution, the independent development of similar species or types of animals in different regions.

n. similarity by virtue of corresponding

"Yes, I certainly agree that parallelism is one of the biggest fundamental challenges we have to make more headway on."

similarity   

epistemological parallelism    methodological parallelism    psychophysical parallelism    angle of parallelism    law of parallelism   

homology    analogy   

resemblance    correspondence    similarity    comparison    analogue    analogy    equality   

consonance    antithesis    assonance    resemblances    similarity    alliteration    equivalence    dissimilarity    parity    coincidence