coincidence

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 4.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

co-occurrence conjunction concurrence happenstance coincidentally matching convergence concordance timing circumstance

Often followed by

that of with between in is and or was

Word family

coincide coincided coincidences coincident coincidental coincides coinciding