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synchronicity

noun

  1. concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences"
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From synchron(ous) + -icity. From Jungian psychology in the 1920s. By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -icity; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.

  1. The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
  2. Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".