Alternative and Parallel

Alternative

Alternative noun - The power, right, or opportunity to choose.

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Parallel and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Parallel" instead a noun "Alternative".

Parallel noun - A point which two or more things share in common.

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Alternative and parallel are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead a noun "Parallel".

Nearby Words: parallelize, parallelism, paralleled, paralleling, parallelise

good	good alternative	good parallel
obvious	obvious alternative	obvious parallel
excellent	excellent alternative	excellent parallel
main	main alternative	main parallel
Other adjectives: decent, interesting, handy, closest.

A strange case happened in the sixth season finale where the sisters found a parallel universe which was an evil alternative to their one (where the humans/witches were evil and demons were good).

Source: Obviously Evil
That said, there isn't any explicit evidence for why the world is the way it is, or that it isn't just a completely alternative world in some ways parallel to ours.

Source: Literature / The Left Hand of God
The episode "Bread and Circuses" actually handwaves it, citing something called "Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planet Development", an alternative title for this trope.

Source: Inexplicable Cultural Ties

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