coincidence
noun
[ kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)ns ]
• a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
• "it was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey like Laura's"
Similar:
accident,
chance,
serendipity,
fate,
a twist of fate,
destiny,
fortuity,
fortune,
providence,
freak,
hazard,
a piece of good fortune,
(a bit of) luck,
(a bit of) good luck,
a fluke,
a happy chance,
happenstance,
• the fact of corresponding in nature or in time of occurrence.
• "the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians"
Similar:
co-occurrence,
coexistence,
conjunction,
simultaneity,
simultaneousness,
contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness,
concomitance,
synchronicity,
synchrony,
clash,
conflict,
correspondence,
agreement,
accord,
concurrence,
match,
fit,
consistency,
conformity,
harmony,
compatibility,
dovetailing,
correlation,
parallelism,
similarity,
likeness,
• the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘occupation of the same space’): from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere ‘coincide, agree’ (see coincide).
