synchronicity
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Etymology edit
From synchron(ous) + -icity. From Jungian psychology in the 1920s. By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -icity; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
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synchronicity (countable and uncountable, plural synchronicities)
- (uncountable) The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
- (Jungian psychology) Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".
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- (state of being synchronous): synchronization, synchroneity; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness
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the state of being synchronous or simultaneous
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