of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a parallelism
2.
of or pertaining to the metaphysical doctrine of parallelism or to its adherents
3.
resembling, approaching, or characterized by parallelism
Word origin
[1865–70; parallelist + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black belt, figure skating, goulash, maverick, springboard-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'parallelistic' in a sentence
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We conceptualize these recurrent melodic contours as an additional, hitherto unnoticed dimension of parallelistic patterning.
Winfried Menninghaus, Valentin Wagner, Christine A. Knoop, Mathias Scharinger 2018, 'Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0205980. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This suggests that the higher order parallelistic feature of poetic melody strongly interacts with the other parallelistic patterns of poems.
Winfried Menninghaus, Valentin Wagner, Christine A Knoop, Mathias Scharinger 2018, 'Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6221279?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)