Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
- n. Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Synchronism.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state of being synchronous or simultaneous.
- n. Jungian psychology Coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related; supposedly the result of "universal forces".
WordNet 3.0
- n. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time
Etymologies
- synchron(ous) + -icity (Wiktionary)
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.”
“It was not until May 1930 that he invented the term synchronicity”
“As a consequence of this experience, Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to explain these inexplicable occurrences.”
The Huffington Post: Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos
“Carl Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to refer to the "meaningful coincidences" of your life and mine.”
The Huffington Post: Steve McSwain: The Wink From The Cosmos
“Our blog/life synchronicity is starting to get weird, pal.”
“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.”
“I swear, I didn't plan to be doing this on H.P. Lovecraft's birthday, but the synchronicity is wonderful.”
“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.”
“Worth noting that Jeff Jarvis used the same phrase just a day before I posted mine -- synchronicity is easy to find online, if you look for it.”
“Breathing in synchronicity with her, Lee pulled back slightly to stare down at Kara.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘synchronicity’.
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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Conspiracies
...And all that heavy metal.
kurt cobain, courtney love, tom grant, exodus rehab clinic, california, seattle, record industry e..., military industri..., mic, yugoslavia, heroin, credit cards and 202 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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MuffinBurns's list
Words to dreams
rapture, cove, tingling, pahutakawa, pang, khop kun kop, hella, boffo, nirvana, flood, synchronicity, sysiphus and 9 more...
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Randomocity
Jeepers, Gadzooks, Golly Gee Whitickers,
squalor,, oodles,, pedantic, snarky, tchotchke, prima donna, hovel, canoodle, juxtapositions, nouveau riche, chagrin, factotum and 12 more...
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the indelible ink of personality
nefarious, mischievious, bawdy, intense, blunt, steadfast, succulent, edible, nature, creature, truth, touch and 28 more...
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inquiryqueue's list
words delicious to pronounce
apostrophe, asphodel, anemone, cantaloupe, cantalevered, cardamom, coriander, petrichor, sycamore, luminous, tendril, peculiar and 122 more...
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laurel's list
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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cxfx's list
callipygous, scaphism, ubermorgen, handschuhschneeba..., farctate, autohagiography, autolatry, spindrift, feculent, verisimilitude, brobdingnagian, ineluctable and 205 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for synchronicity.
dancingsiamese 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 Jul 15, 2009
treeseed 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. Feb 10, 2008