coincidence
/koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ nom B2En français : coïncidence
- The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
- The appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none. · That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.· It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
- A coincidence point.
- A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
Pluriel coincidences
Dans la bibliothèque
Inquiry was made, and it was ascertained that, by a strange coincidence, this carriage contained the corpse of the Marquis de Saint-Méran, and that those who had come thinking to attend one funeral would follow two.
“Yes, monsieur; I am on the point of marrying a young girl I have been attached to for three years.” Villefort, impassive as he was, was struck with this coincidence; and the tremulous voice of Dantès, surprised in the midst of his happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom—he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of another.
“It may, of course, be a mere coincidence, or it may point to some nervousness which would indicate that he had reason to apprehend danger.
“It can’t be a coincidence,” he cried, at last springing from his chair and pacing wildly up and down the room; “it is impossible that it should be a mere coincidence.
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