coincidence
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3.4
- noun
- /koʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/
- It was pure coincidence that they both arrived at the party at the same time.
- just a coincidence
- more than a coincidence
- a chance coincidence
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Watch on YouTubeIt's not a coincidence, it's cause and effect.
- It's not a coincidence, it's cause and effect.
- But that's too many coincidences to to be anything else.
- The second time something happens, maybe it's a coincidence, but look alive.
- I've said to her it's a coincidence that we just have similar viewpoints.
- So very human convictions, like there are no coincidences, everything happens for a reason.
- Although it may be a coincidence, linking the two seems plausible.
- Though it may be a coincidence, linking the two seems plausible.
- There is is that just a coincidence or are you Wow?
- I'm just going to pick on certain coincidences and and events.
- And that's there's too many coincidences around this Darryl Paul.
Examples
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And I thought, oh, what a coincidence they have the same definition.
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You think it's just a coincidence that out of all the lawyers in Los Angeles, they just happened to pick you?
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But I hear there is no such thing as a coincidence, right?
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It's not a coincidence, it's cause and effect.
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I think it's just a coincidence.
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Now, that was a coincidence.
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That is a strange coincidence.
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Isn't it an extraordinary coincidence that you know them all?
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And then there's a delightful coincidence one of my colleagues noticed only recently.
Fiction book (1990) -
It wasn't just a coincidence you showed up, was it?
Synonyms
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8.5
A chance event that seems planned but is actually an accident
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8.9
A meaningful coincidence that seems connected but has no clear cause
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3.4
An event that happens by accident and is not planned
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7.1
More than one thing happening at the same time or in the same place
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7.2
Two or more things happening at the same time
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9.1
An unexpected event that happens by chance
Compounds
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8.7
A person who finds patterns or special meaning in events that are probably random
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Surface Forms
Morphology
coincidence = coincide (transparent) = co + incide + ence
Formed from the verb 'coincide' + the nominalizing suffix '-ence'; if a learner knows 'coincide' the noun meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Coincidence comes from the Latin parts co- 'together' and incidere 'to fall'. Think of two events 'falling together' by chance, which helps explain why a coincidence is an accidental or surprising meeting of events.