coincidence
Meaning of coincidence
- a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
it was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey like Laura's
they met by coincidence
- the fact of corresponding in nature or in time of occurrence.
the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians
- the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.
early 17th century (in the sense ‘occupation of the same space’): from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere ‘coincide, agree’ (see coincide).
Information about coincidence
- It is a name.
- The plural form of coincidence is: coincidences.
- Languages in which coincidence is used:
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Hyphenation of coincidence
co-in-ci-dence
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- coincidence is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
coincidence synonyms
Meaning happenstance:
Meaning concurrence:
Meaning an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause:
Meaning the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause:
Meaning the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way:
Meaning the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power:
Meaning the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future:
Meaning a chance occurrence:
Meaning chance or luck as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs:
Meaning the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power:
Meaning a very unusual and unexpected event or situation:
Meaning a danger or risk:
Meaning the state or fact of living or existing at the same time or in the same place:
Meaning the fact of existing or occurring together with something else:
Meaning the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection:
Meaning simultaneous action, development, or occurrence:
Meaning an inconvenient coincidence of the timing of events or activities:
Meaning a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one:
Meaning a close similarity, connection, or equivalence:
Meaning the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency:
Meaning an official agreement or treaty:
Meaning a contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport:
Meaning the particular way in which something, especially a garment or component, fits:
Meaning consistent behaviour or treatment:
Meaning similarity in form or type; agreement in character:
Meaning the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect:
Meaning a state in which two things are able to exist or occur together without problems or conflict:
Meaning join together by means of a dovetail:
Meaning a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things:
Meaning the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way:
Meaning the state or fact of being similar:
Meaning the fact or quality of being alike; resemblance:
Translation of coincidence
- French: coïncidence
- Italian: coincidenza
- Spanish: coincidencia
- German: Zufall, Koinzidenz
Words that rhyme with coincidence
faence, Bence, decumbence, incumbence, recumbence, resorbence, succumbence, superincumbence, Autofluorescence, Cence, Renascence, acaulescence, accrescence, acescence, acquiescence, adherescence, adjacence, adnascence, adolescence, adularescence, albescence, alkalescence, arborescence, ascence, autofluorescence, autoluminescence, beneficence, bioluminescence, calescence, calorescence, candescence, canescence, cathodofluorescence, cathodoluminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chemoluminescence, circumcrescence, circumjacence, coadjacence, coalescence, colliquescence, complacence, concaulescence, concrescence, concupiscence, connascence, consenescence, contabescence, convalescence