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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You could call wilfing multitasking, or parallelistic cognitive layering – or you could call it cocking around on the web.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011
This theory of Albrecht's has all the charms and difficulties, or impossibilities, of parallelistic interpretations in general.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
But we may here confine ourselves to the most general of the objections to the parallelistic theory.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
But the situation is entirely changed, if we consider the smell effect from the point of view of the parallelistic theory.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
But the contested parallelistic interpretation of this dependence is made far more probable through other grounds.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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