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co·in·ci·dence
 coincidence
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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the fact of two events occurring at the same time simply by chance and, often, in a way that is highly unexpected and surprising; or the fact of two or more things turning out to be the same although there would seem to be little chance of that being the case.
What a coincidence that you called just as I was thinking of you!It was a strange coincidence that the woman sitting next to me on the airplane had children with the same names as mine.That we wore the same dress to the party was just a coincidence--we certainly didn't plan it!- synonyms:
- concurrence, fortuitousness, simultaneity
- similar words:
- accident, concomitance, congruity, consonance, correspondence, fluke, haphazard, happenstance, luck, serendipity
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| related words: |
chance, conjunction, identity |
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