synchronicity
noun
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"It happens to everyone sooner or later: A certain number pops up wherever you go; an old friend you haven't seen in 20 years since high school appears the same day you're looking at her picture in a yearbook; you're singing a song and turn on the radio—and the same song is playing." Such coincidences, here described by Thomas Ropp in The Arizona Republic, March 29,1999, are examples of synchronicity. The concept is linked to the psychology of Carl Jung. Jung didn't coin the word (the "simultaneousness" sense of synchronicity was already in use), but he gave it special importance in his writings. Jung believed that such "meaningful coincidences" play an important role in our lives. Today, some people even look to synchronicities for spiritual guidance.
Examples of synchronicity in a Sentence
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
These had a lot in common with chairs Charles Eames had designed, and when the two first met, they were shocked at their synchronicity (which bonded the designers permanently).
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 7 Oct. 2024
That uncanny synchronicity, the jolting coincidence of birth and death, changed Bloom’s life, and the trajectory of her work.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
The group flowed in concert, moving as if underwater, and the synchronicity of the dancers’ movements generated a heaving energy.
—Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Synchronicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synchronicity. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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