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coincidency

coincidency is the dated form of coincidence.

Meaning of coincidence

Noun

coincidence (countable and uncountable, plural coincidences)

  1. The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
    Synonyms:
    concurrentness
  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.
  3. A coincidence point.
  4. A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.

Forms of coincidency

pluralcoincidencies

Questions about coincidency

What is coincidency the dated form of?
Coincidency is the dated form of coincidence.

Words near coincidency in the dictionary

  1. coincidence theorist
  2. coincidence theorists
  3. coincidence theory
  4. coincidences
  5. coincidencies
  6. coincidency
  7. coincident
  8. coincident indicator
  9. coincident indicators
  10. coincidental
  11. coincidentalism

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