coincidence

coincidence
n
1. accord, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, rapport, unity, Rhet. concinnity; agreement, accordance, correspondence, conformity, conformation, conformance, congruity, congruence, congruency, consonance, consonancy; unanimity, con-sentience, consentaneity, consentaneousness, concurrence; equality, synonymity, identicalness, uniformity; similarity, affinity, connaturalness, consistency.
2. coexistence, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, contemporariness, simultaneity, simultaneousness, concomitance, concomitancy, synchronism, syn-chronousness; coextension, coevality, coetaneity, coe-taneousness; confluence, conflux; parallelism, correlation.
3. asynchronism, fluke, accident, chance, incidental occurrence, unpredictable event; serendipity, stroke of luck, Sl. good or lucky break, fortuitousness.

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