parallelism

The quality or condition of being parallel.

Correspondence or similarity.

The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases.

The doctrine that to every mental change there corresponds a concomitant but causally unconnected physical alteration.

The opinion that the relation between the brain and the mind, although it is one of concomitant variation, is not the relation of cause and effect; the opinion that mental process and brain process are parallel events, and that they do not interact.

In evolution, the independent development of similar species or types of animals in different regions.

A parallel position, in any sense of the word parallel.

The retention by a moving line of positions parallel to one another.

Analogy.

Specifically The correspondence resulting from the repetition of the same sentiment or imagery, sense, or grammatical construction: a marked feature of Hebrew poetry.