noun the quality or state of being parallel.
2. parallelism ·noun resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
3. parallelism ·noun similarity of construction or meaning of clauses placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in hebrew poetry; ·e.g.: --//at her feet he bowed, he fell:/where he bowed, there he fell down dead. judg. v.27.