coincidence

nounagreement; coexistence

nounaccidental happening

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noun agreement; coexistence

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More words related to coincidence

chance

noun. fate, luck

circumstance

noun. situation, condition

coexistence

noun. happening or being at same time, place

conjunction

noun. combination

Word Origin & History

c.1600, "exact correspondence," from French coincidence, from coincider (see coincide). Meaning "a concurrence of events with no apparent connection" is from 1680s.

Example Sentences for coincidence

The coincidence was interpreted by Casanova as a propitious sign.

He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence.

"That's a coincidence," observed the stranger, twirling his pale mustache.

Was this coincidence, or prevision, or what Mr. Dessoir calls the 'falsification of memory'?

No one knows how it happened, but there was a coincidence about the time which I must relate.

We know that Denberg is loose and their capture of Thelma is no coincidence.

Foulet shrugged, "Coincidence—possibly," he said, "but it is our only clue."

For I will tell you what has happened to me; and I regard the coincidence as a sort of omen.

The coincidence of the "abbey" name would not have brought me there, of itself.

I presume it was a coincidence, like our meeting at the pond.

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