Word Confusion: Parity versus Parody

Plural: parities

Plural for the noun and third person present verb: parodies
Past tense or past participle: parodied
Gerund or present participle: parodying

• [Finance; also purchasing parity] The value of one currency in terms of another at an established exchange rate
• [Finance] Equivalence in value at a fixed ratio between moneys of different metals
• [Economics] A system of providing farmers with consistent purchasing power by regulating prices of farm products, usually with government price supports

[Mathematics; of a number] The fact of being even or odd

• [Physics] The property of a spatial wave equation that either remains the same (even parity) or changes sign (odd parity) under a given transformation
• [Physics] The value of a quantum number corresponding to parity
• [Computing] A function whose being even (or odd) provides a check on a set of binary values

Equivalence

• Correspondence
• Similarity
• Analogy

[Medicine] The fact or condition of having borne children ²

• The number of children previously borne

• An imitation or version of something that falls far short of the real thing
• A travesty

A burlesque imitation of a musical composition

Any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.

[parody Mass] The use in the 16th century of borrowed material in a musical setting of the Mass

Verb, transitive:
Produce a humorously exaggerated imitation of a writer, artist, or genre

• Mimic humorously, poorly, or feebly
• Travesty

That is far from the truth as I also want a better world with equal parity to men for my wife, daughters, sisters and so on.

And yet, the euro remains below parity with the US currency.

The doctrine of parity was used to justify agricultural price controls in the United States beginning in the 1920s.

M is the lattice point if and only if x 1 and x 2 are of the same parity and so are y 1 and y 2.

Elementary particles have far too many properties — such as spin, charge, colour, parity and hypercharge — to be truly elementary.

Others, such as parity, are broken by small amounts, and the corresponding conservation law therefore only holds approximately.

This error management system provides the ability to monitor CRC, parity, and encoding errors.

The relationship between breast cancer and parity was investigated.

Mother is a classic example of parity, having borne seven children before she had her last baby.

I love his provocative use of parody.

Arthur Sullivan incorporated a few parodies of operatic conventions when he co-wrote The Pirates of Penzance with W.S. Gilbert.

He seems like a parody of an educated Englishman.

Josquin Desprez wrote several parody Masses, including Missa Malheur me bat, Missa Mater Patris, and Missa Fortuna desperata.

I loved Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as a parody of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Verb, transitive:
His specialty was parodying Gothic fiction.

Mel Brooks created a television series and a movie that parodied Robin Hood.

She parodied his friend’s way of walking.

There are some bored people out there parodying songs about living in quarantine.

Her work parodies genres such as the thriller and the spy novel.

1. Late 16th century from the late Latin paritas, from par meaning equal.
2. Late 19th century from parous meaning having borne offspring in a back-formation from adjectives ending in -parous + -ity.