parallelistic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
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of or relating to the metaphysical doctrine of parallelism or to its adherents.
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resembling, approaching, or characterized by parallelism.
Etymology
Origin of parallelistic
First recorded in 1865–70; parallelist + -ic
Example Sentences
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Sans the Masters—which, fun fact, is played at the same venue every year—the Open Championship is the most dependable, and parallelistic, of the traveling major championships.
From Golf Digest
But the contested parallelistic interpretation of this dependence is made far more probable through other grounds.
From Project Gutenberg
And we should require to find out through what parallelistic or abruptly idealistic system the “without” was done away with in this case.
From Project Gutenberg
This theory of Albrecht's has all the charms and difficulties, or impossibilities, of parallelistic interpretations in general.
From Project Gutenberg
But we may here confine ourselves to the most general of the objections to the parallelistic theory.
From Project Gutenberg
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