coincidence
Other forms: coincidences
People love to talk about strange coincidences––like you and your mother having the same birthday, or two unrelated families named "The Martins" living next door to each other. A coincidence is something that's not planned or arranged but seems like it is.
Technically, a coincidence is an occurrence of events that happen at the same time by total accident––like you and a kid from your class at school both visit the Grand Canyon on the same day. Weird. If some guy is stalking you, always running into you wherever you go, this is not a coincidence. That guy has memorized your schedule.
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the temporal property of two things happening at the same time“the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable”
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synonyms:
co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction
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concomitance
occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another
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overlap
the property of partial coincidence in time
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contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
the quality of belonging to the same period of time
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unison
occurring together or simultaneously
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simultaneity, simultaneousness
happening or existing or done at the same time
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the quality of occupying the same position or area in space“he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs”
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position, spatial relation
the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
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position, spatial relation
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an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
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synonyms:
happenstance
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accident, chance event, fortuity, stroke
anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
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accident, chance event, fortuity, stroke
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Vocabulary lists containing coincidence
This first book of the Clementine series introduces an eight-year-old girl who doesn't like sharing her name with a fruit and acts on ideas that result in a not-so-good week.
Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg belong to different families who hiss and growl at each other, but when they both get lost in the woods, they must stick together to get back to their camps safely.
Through an intricate series of short stories that span time and space, a young boy grieves over the death of his best friend, James, while remembering the happy times they spent together.
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