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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
  • noun Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Synchronism.

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  • noun uncountable The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
  • noun Jungian psychology Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".

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  • noun the relation that exists when things occur at the same time

Etymologies

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synchron(ous) + -icity

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Examples

  • Jung used the word synchronicity for ‘meaningful coincidence,’ which he said was a concept possible only because an observer and connected event are products of the same source.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • It was not until May 1930 that he invented the term synchronicity

    Still Point 2008

  • As a consequence of this experience, Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to explain these inexplicable occurrences.

    Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos Steve McSwain 2011

  • Carl Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to refer to the "meaningful coincidences" of your life and mine.

    Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos Steve McSwain 2011

  • Carl Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to refer to the "meaningful coincidences" of your life and mine.

    Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos Steve McSwain 2011

  • As a consequence of this experience, Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to explain these inexplicable occurrences.

    Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos Steve McSwain 2011

  • The motivations seem to be much the same — no compromise and constant war has become the national identity and this appears to have occurred in synchronicity with the US over the last thirty years, but certainly over the last 10.

    Think Progress » Netanyahu Apologizes For Settlements News, Despite Recently Appearing With Pro-Settlement Cleric Hagee 2010

  • Our blog/life synchronicity is starting to get weird, pal.

    Maybe? 2009

  • I swear, I didn't plan to be doing this on H.P. Lovecraft's birthday, but the synchronicity is wonderful.

    August 20th, 2007 archmage 2007

  • I don't believe in synchronicity, but I did have to look twice when I read this story from the Buffalo News about the upcoming film "The Savages" which is being shot in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

    Archive 2007-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007

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  • I wanted to list gardenia before but I was having an Alzheimer's moment and I couldn't think of the name of the flower that was given to me as a corsage when I was taken to my first formal dance. So I turned on the TV and started watching Turner Classic Movies and The Maltese Falcon was playing. The very first scene that came up features Mary Astor wearing a gardenia.

    February 11, 2008

  • From Merriam-Webster.com !!

    From syn·chro·nous

    Pronunciation: \?si?-kr?-n?s, ?sin-\

    Function: adjective

    Etymology: Late Latin synchronos, from Greek, from syn- + chronos time

    Date: 1669

    1: happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time

    2: recurring or operating at exactly the same periods

    July 15, 2009