English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French coïncidence.
Pronunciation
Noun
coincidence (countable and uncountable, plural coincidences)
- 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.
- (mathematical analysis) A coincidence point.
- (geometry) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
of objects, property of being coincident
state of events appearing to be connected when they are not
- Arabic: صُدْفَة (ar) f (ṣudfa), مُصَادَفَة f (muṣādafa)
- Armenian: պատահականություն (hy) (patahakanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: təsadüf (az)
- Belarusian: збе́жнасць f (zbjéžnascʹ), супадзе́нне n (supadzjénnje)
- Bulgarian: съвпаде́ние (bg) n (sǎvpadénie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 巧合 (zh) (qiǎohé)
- Czech: náhoda (cs) f, koincidence (cs) f
- Danish: sammenfald n, sammentræf n
- Esperanto: koincido
- Finnish: yhteensattuma (fi)
- French: coïncidence (fr) f
- German: zufälliges Zusammentreffen m, Koinzidenz (de) f
- Greek: σύμπτωση (el) f (sýmptosi)
- Ancient Greek: συγκυρία f (sunkuría)
- Hawaiian: ūlialia
- Hebrew: צירוף-מקרים m (tzerúf-mikrím)
- Hindi: संयोग (hi) m (sañyog)
- Italian: coincidenza (it) f
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Lithuanian: sutapimas m
- Macedonian: совпаѓање n (sovpaǵanje), случајност f (slučajnost)
- Malay: kebetulan
- Maori: oruatanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sammentreff n, sammenfall n, tilfeldighet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: samantreff m or n, samanfall
- Polish: zbieg okoliczności (pl) m, koincydencja (pl) f
- Portuguese: coincidência (pt) f
- Russian: совпаде́ние (ru) n (sovpadénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: co-thuiteamas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: случајност f, коинциденција f
- Slovak: náhoda f
- Slovene: nakljúčje (sl) n
- Spanish: coincidencia (es) f, casualidad (es) f
- Turkish: tesadüf (tr), rastlantı (tr)
- Ukrainian: збі́жність f (zbížnistʹ)
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