coincidence

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   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.

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

   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.

3. 3

   A coincidence point.

4. 4

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

Forms

plural

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