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The relation that exists when things occur at the same time
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synchronicity
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Wikipedia
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Carl Gustav Jung Synchronicity is a concept, first explained by psychiatrist Carl Jung , which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship , yet seem to be meaningfully related. During his career, Jung furnished ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Face to face, in perfect synchronicity , they grin and swoop as the sweat drips off them. ▪ So how can you experience this synchronicity for yourself? ▪ There was everywhere in their exchange an exquisite synchronicity . ▪ There ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1953; from synchronic + -ity . Originally in Jung. Synchroneity is from 1889, but equally malformed, and see synchronism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism , synchrony , synchroneity , synchronization , synchronisation , synchronizing ] [ant: asynchronism , asynchronism ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being synchronous or simultaneous. 2 (context Jungian psychology English) coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".
Usage examples of synchronicity.
To the apocalyptist, who literally awaits the Great Uncovering, all coincidence is synchronicity, all accident revelation.
On the full tide the Bulan was refloated and Conrad marvelled at the synchronicity between Tyndall and Ahmed.
Even more interesting, the first physicist to apply the concept of synchronicity to physics, after Jung published the theory, was Wolfgang Pauli.
All of them, moving and singing in absolute and perfect monoclonal synchronicity, all echoing the exact same sound at once.
Pittman had been angry at Burt for several days, but the object of his anger had shifted when there turned out to be a certain synchronicity between the police-brutality assignment Pittman was given and what happened next.
Before, with the feedback influence of the charismata, they'd been able to reach a state of synchronicity almost immediately.
He postulates that synchronicity of the women's cycles made them ready to conceive, then that the mixing of seed allowed strong to supplant weak, and finally, that the womb has no defense against unfamiliar seed.
He believed that synchronicities happen because everything in a time period is connected with everything else in that time period.
David] Peat believes that synchronicities are therefore "flaws" in the fabric of reality, momentary fissures that allow us a brief glimpse of the immense and unitary order underlying all of nature.