coincidence

UK /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ US /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/

noun 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

complete, pure, sheer

Meeting my old friend at the airport was sheer coincidence since we hadn't planned it.

mere

happy

It was a happy coincidence that we both decided to visit the same café on the same afternoon.

unfortunate, unhappy | amazing, curious, extraordinary, funny, incredible, odd, remarkable, strange, wonderful

QUANT

series, set, string

A string of coincidences led her to discover her long-lost cousin at the airport.

COINCIDENCE + VERB

happen

It was pure luck that we both arrived at the station at the same time—such coincidences happen more often than you might think.

PREP

by (a) ~

By pure coincidence, we ran into each other at the airport after not speaking for five years.

Definitions

noun

Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.

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.

A coincidence point.

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

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Synonyms

noun — the temporal property of two things happening at the same ti

noun — an event that might have been arranged although it was reall

happenstance

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

What a coincidence!

Tatoeba · #18131

It was sheer coincidence that Mary and I were on the same train.

Tatoeba · #32034

I think it is a mere coincidence.

Tatoeba · #42234

We happened to meet again through a strange coincidence.

Tatoeba · #318630

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