Serendipity vs. Synchronicity

Serendipitynoun

An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.

Serendipitynoun

A combination of events which are not individually beneficial, but occurring together to produce a good or wonderful outcome.

Serendipitynoun

good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

Serendipitynoun

the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way

Serendipity

Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. Serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of product invention and scientific discovery.

Synchronicitynoun

(uncountable) The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.

Synchronicitynoun

(Jungian psychology) Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".

Synchronicitynoun

the relation that exists when things occur at the same time;

Synchronicity

Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl G. Jung Jung held that to ascribe meaning to certain acausal coincidences can be a healthy, even necessary, function of the human mind—principally, by way of bringing important material of the unconscious mind to attention. This further developed into the view that there is a philosophical objectivity or suprasubjectivity to the meaningfulness of such coincidences, as related to the collective unconscious.During his career, Jung furnished several different definitions of the term, defining synchronicity as , , , and as the .