noun
synchronicity
noun
1
The quality of happening at the same time; simultaneity.
"The dancers moved with perfect synchronicity."
2
Two or more events that feel meaningfully connected even though there is no obvious cause linking them.
"He called her the exact moment she was thinking about him — pure synchronicity, she said."
How to Use Synchronicity
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither simply "happening together in time," or Jung's idea of coincidences that feel too meaningful to be random.
Common mistake
In everyday speech people almost always mean the Jungian "meaningful coincidence" sense, not the plain "simultaneity" sense.
Word Forms
synchronicities plural
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Etymology
Coined from "synchronous" plus "-icity"; the meaningful-coincidence sense was introduced by the psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920s.