Fate vs. Coincidence

Fatenoun

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

Fatenoun

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

Fatenoun

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

Fatenoun

(mythology) lang=en (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Fateverb

(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

Fatenoun

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Fatenoun

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

Fatenoun

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

Fatenoun

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

Fatenoun

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

Fatenoun

the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);

Fatenoun

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

Fateverb

decree or designate beforehand;

Coincidencenoun

Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.

Coincidencenoun

Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.

Coincidencenoun

(analysis) A coincidence point.

Coincidencenoun

(geometry) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.

Coincidencenoun

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.

Coincidencenoun

The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Coincidencenoun

Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement.

Coincidencenoun

an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

Coincidencenoun

the quality of occupying the same position or area in space;

Coincidencenoun

the temporal property of two things happening at the same time;

Coincidencenoun

a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection

Coincidencenoun

the fact of corresponding in nature or in time of occurrence

Coincidencenoun

the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.

Coincidence

A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims.