coincidence

See also: coïncidence

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Alternative forms

• coïncidence (rare, chiefly dated)
• coincidency (dated)
• quincidence (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From French coïncidence. By surface analysis, coincide +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kəʉˈɪnsɪdəns/

Noun

coincidence (countable and uncountable, plural coincidences)

1. Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
2. Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection 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.

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

3. (mathematical analysis) A coincidence point.
4. (geometry) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.

Synonyms

• (of objects and time): concurrentness, synchronicity; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness
• (in analysis): coincidence point

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• coincide
• coincident
• coincidental
• coincidentally

Translations

of objects, property of being coincident

Bulgarian: съвпаде́ние (bg) n (sǎvpadénie) Czech: koincidence (cs) f French: coïncidence (fr) f Hungarian: egybeesés (hu) Malay: keadaan serentak (ms)​ Maori: oruatanga Russian: совпаде́ние (ru) n (sovpadénije) Spanish: coincidencia (es) f, casualidad (es) f Ukrainian: збіг m (zbih)

state of events appearing to be connected when they are not

Arabic: صُدْفَة (ar) f (ṣudfa), مُصَادَفَة f (muṣādafa), تَصَادُف m (taṣāduf) Hijazi Arabic: صُدْفة f (ṣudfa) Armenian: պատահականություն (hy) (patahakanutʻyun) Azerbaijani: təsadüf (az) Belarusian: збе́жнасць f (zbjéžnascʹ), супадзе́нне n (supadzjénnje) Bulgarian: съвпаде́ние (bg) n (sǎvpadénie) Chinese: Mandarin: 巧合 (zh) (qiǎohé) Czech: náhoda (cs) f, koincidence (cs) f Danish: sammenfald n, sammentræf n Dutch: toeval (nl) n Esperanto: koincido Finnish: yhteensattuma (fi) French: coïncidence (fr) f German: zufälliges Zusammentreffen m, Koinzidenz (de) f, Zufall (de) m Greek: σύμπτωση (el) f (sýmptosi) Ancient Greek: σύμπτωσις f (súmptōsis) Hawaiian: ūlialia Hebrew: צירוף־מקרים m (tzerúf-mikrím) Hindi: संयोग (hi) m (sãyog), इत्तिफ़ाक़ m (ittifāq) Hungarian: véletlen egybeesés Italian: coincidenza (it) f Japanese: 一致 (ja) (いっち, itchi), 偶然 (ja) (ぐうぜん, gūzen), 符合 (ja) (ふごう, fugō), 偶然の一致 (ぐうぜんのいっち, gūzen no itchi) Korean: 일치(一致) (ko) (ilchi), 우연의 일치 (uyeonui ilchi), 우연(偶然) (ko) (uyeon) Lithuanian: sutapimas m Macedonian: совпаѓање n (sovpaǵanje), случајност f (slučajnost) Malay: kebetulan (ms) Maori: oruatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: sammentreff n, sammenfall n, tilfeldighet (no) m or f Nynorsk: samantreff m or n, samanfall Ottoman Turkish: تصادف (tesâdüf) Persian: Dari: تَصَادُف (tasāduf) Iranian Persian: تَصادُف (tasâdof) Polish: zbieg okoliczności (pl) m, koincydencja (pl) f, przypadek (pl) m, traf (pl) m Portuguese: coincidência (pt) f Romanian: coincidență (ro) f Russian: совпаде́ние (ru) n (sovpadénije) Scottish Gaelic: co-thuiteamas m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: случајност f, коинциденција f Roman: slučajnost (sh) f, koincidencija (sh) f Slovak: náhoda f Slovene: nakljúčje (sl) n Spanish: coincidencia (es) f, casualidad (es) f Swedish: sammanträffande (sv) Tajik: тасодуф (tg) (tasoduf) Turkish: tesadüf (tr), rastlantı (tr) Ukrainian: збіг m (zbih), збі́жність f (zbížnistʹ) Urdu: اِتِّفاق (ur) m (ittifāq), تَصادُف ? (tasāduf)

coincidence point — see coincidence point