PARALLELISM Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

parallelism

noun

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 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 StarCore’s architectures used a long instruction word architecture that encoded multiple, independent operations in a single instruction in order to exploit parallelism in DSP code. —

IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for parallelism

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Noun

As to why the format interested him, Hawley pointed to a similarity with Fargo.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2026
Using advanced language modeling and similarity analysis, the platform matches an internal job title with the five most relevant benchmark jobs in ERI’s database.

— Matt Emma, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026