coincidences
Saykoh-IN-si-duhns-izUS/koʊˈɪnsɪdənsɪz/UK/kəʊˈɪnsɪdənsɪz/AUS/kəʉˈɪnsɪdənsɪz/
- 1Plural of coincidence.
A few odd coincidences led the investigators to reopen the case.
She kept a journal of the small coincidences that shaped her year.
Note
A regular plural, though not every use of the singular takes it. Coincidence can name an abstract quality, the property of things occurring at the same time or place, and that uncountable use has no plural. The plural counts instances instead. They may be chance events that only seem connected, or, in mathematics, fixed points where a correspondence maps a point to itself.
coincidences is a form of coincidence
coincidence, noun: The appearance of a meaningful connection between events that are in fact unrelated. Full entry
- Forms
- coincidencecoincidences plural
- Spelling
- coincidence → coincidences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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