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co·in·ci·dence
 coincidence
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- pronunciation:
- ko
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 ns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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the fact of two events occurring at the same time simply by chance and, often, in a way that is highly unexpected and surprising; or the fact of two or more things turning out to be the same although there would seem to be little chance of that being the case.
What a coincidence that you called just as I was thinking of you!It was a strange coincidence that the woman sitting next to me on the airplane had children with the same names as mine.That we wore the same dress to the party was just a coincidence--we certainly didn't plan it!- synonyms:
- concurrence, fortuitousness, simultaneity
- similar words:
- accident, concomitance, congruity, consonance, correspondence, fluke, haphazard, happenstance, luck, serendipity
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chance, conjunction, identity |
adjective + (n.)coincidence
amazing,
astronomical,
bizarre,
chronological,
conscious,
convenient,
cosmic,
curious,
eerie,
extraordinary,
fantastic,
fatal,
fortuitous,
fortunate,
funny,
happy,
historical,
improbable,
incredible,
interesting,
ironic,
just,
lucky,
marvelous,
meaningful,
meaningless,
mere,
miraculous,
mysterious,
near,
odd,
pure,
random,
remarkable,
seeming,
sheer,
startling,
strange,
strangest,
striking,
suspicious,
temporal,
timely,
tragic,
unbelievable,
uncanny,
unfortunate,
unhappy,
unlikely,
unlucky,
weird
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verb + (n.)coincidence
dismiss, marvel
(n.)coincidence
+ verb
coincide, exclaim, haunt, plot
noun + (n.)coincidence
accident, causality, fate, fluke, gamma, intuition, realm, series, string, timing
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The word coincidence
contains the following part:
cad, cas, cid2
Latin
root
that means to fall
  Example words:
accident, accidental, cadaver, cadaverous, cadence, cascade, casualty, coincide, coincidence, decadent, deciduous, incidence, incident, incidental, occasion, occidental, recidivism
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