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coincidence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəʉˈɪnsɪdəns/ (Australia)
• (California) audio
• /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ (Canada, General-American)
• /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle French coincidence (French coïncidence). By surface analysis, coincide + -ence.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
2. (countable, uncountable) The appearance of a meaningful connection between events 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.
   • This is a matter of coincidence rather than historical continuity; there is, however, a link between Stirner and modern existentialism through Nietzsche, who had read Stirner's work though he nowhere expressly refers to it. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163:
   • It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
3. (countable, uncountable) A coincidence point.
4. (countable, uncountable) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.

Forms

Deriveds

coincidence theory · divine coincidence · anticoincidence · coincidence theorist · cohencidence · coincidence technique · Lefschetz coincidence theorem · index of coincidence · coincidence method · anthropic coincidence · coinkydink · coincidence point · cohencidental · incoincidence · noncoincidence

Relateds

coincidental · coincide · coincidentally · coincident

Synonyms

synchronicity · concurrentness (of objects and time) · coincidence point (in analysis)

Translations (86)

gd co-thuiteamas (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sh случајност (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · fa-ira تَصادُف (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · eo koincido (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · pl koincydencja (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ru совпаде́ние (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ar تَصَادُف (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · bg съвпаде́ние (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · cs náhoda (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · hu egybeesés (of objects, property of being coincident) · uk збі́жність (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sl nakljúčje (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · cs koincidence (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · pl przypadek (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ru совпаде́ние (of objects, property of being coincident) · ja 一致 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · es casualidad (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ta தற்செயல் (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ur اِتِّفاق (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · be супадзе́нне (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sk náhoda (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ja 符合 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · tg тасодуф (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ko 우연의 일치 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ur تَصادُف (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · pl traf (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · haw ūlialia (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · uk збіг (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · nb sammenfall (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · es coincidencia (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sh коинциденција (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ms keadaan serentak (of objects, property of being coincident) · tr rastlantı (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ja 偶然 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · fr coïncidence (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · da sammenfald (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ms kebetulan (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · es casualidad (of objects, property of being coincident) · fr coïncidence (of objects, property of being coincident) · ar مُصَادَفَة (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · hu véletlen egybeesés (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ar صُدْفَة (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · fi yhteensattuma (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · uk збіг (of objects, property of being coincident) · pt coincidência (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · bg съвпаде́ние (of objects, property of being coincident) · pl zbieg okoliczności (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · nl toeval (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · nn samanfall (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · be збе́жнасць (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sh slučajnost (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ja 偶然の一致 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · hi इत्तिफ़ाक़ (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · el σύμπτωση (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · mk совпаѓање (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ko 일치 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sv sammanträffande (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · et kokkusattumus (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · tr tesadüf (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ota تصادف (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · nb tilfeldighet (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · de Zufall (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · hi संयोग (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · grc σύμπτωσις (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · de zufälliges Zusammentreffen (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · es coincidencia (of objects, property of being coincident) · de Koinzidenz (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · it coincidenza (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · lt sutapimas (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · prs تَصَادُف (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ro coincidență (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · mi oruatanga (of objects, property of being coincident) · da sammentræf (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · cs koincidence (of objects, property of being coincident) · fi yhtäaikaisuus (of objects, property of being coincident) · nb sammentreff (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · mi oruatanga (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · sh koincidencija (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · ko 우연 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · cmn 巧合 (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · az təsadüf (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · he צירוף מקרים (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · nn samantreff (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · mk случајност (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · acw صُدْفة (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not) · hy պատահականություն (state of events appearing to be connected when they are not)