coincidence

plural coincidences · alternative dated rare coïncidence · alternative dated coincidency · alternative pronunciation spelling quincidence

1. countableuncountableThe property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.

   Synonyms: concurrentness

2. countableuncountableThe appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none.

   It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.

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   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

3. countableuncountablemathematical analysisA coincidence point.

   Synonyms: coincidence point

4. countableuncountablegeometryA fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.