coincidence
noun/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/UK/koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/CA/kəʉˈɪnsɪdəns/
Etymology
From Middle French coincidence (French coïncidence). By surface analysis, coincide + -ence.
- borrowed from coincidence
Definitions
Of objects, the property of being coincident
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
- That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.
- It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
A coincidence point.
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A fixed point of a correspondence
A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
The neighborhood
- synonymsynchronicity
- synonymsimultaneousness
- neighborcoincide
- neighborcoincident
- neighborcoincidental
- neighborcoincidentally
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for coincidence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA