psychophysical parallelism
noun Philosophy.
the view that mental and bodily events occur in parallel series without causal interaction.
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How To Use ParallelismsWhen writers use very similar wording across several sentences or lines of poetry, it’s known as parallel sentence structure. Doing this creates rhythm and balance. Parallel sentence structures are also known as parallelisms. Simple parallelisms may be as short as words or phrases. More complex ones may combine entire clauses or sentences. Parallel sentence structures can highlight aspects of stories and poems in many ways. …
Nearby words
- psychopathy,
- psychopharmaceutical,
- psychopharmacology,
- psychopharmacotherapy,
- psychophysical,
- psychophysicist,
- psychophysics,
- psychophysiologic disorder,
- psychophysiological,
- psychophysiology
Compare occasionalism.
Origin of psychophysical parallelism
First recorded in 1890–95
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