synchronicity

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And I am saying this at the same time I am experiencing massive synchronicity which is a record I am keeping that simply, cannot, be random.

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  1. noun The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.
  2. noun Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.

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  • In a random burst of synchronicity, a good friend and director of the Mori Art Museum, Fumio Nanjo, was in Qatar for his first time visiting the new Museum of Islamic Art and attending Sotheby's first-ever international auction in Doha.
  • It's almost synchronicity, but not quite, I think. —  Asimov'sSF,December2007
  • There was no synchronicity, there was no serendipity, there was no luck, none of that Sting garbage. —  Sock
  • In a strange moment of synchronicity, there was also Diane English's long-belabored remake of George Cukor's 1939 classic ensemble comedy, —  SF360
  • Strange synchronicity -- in a closeup of James Harrison, his mouth was moving as he talked, and Ozzy Osbourne's opening laugh from "Crazy Train" played on the stadium sound system, making it look as if NBC had done a little sound effects gimmmick and make Harrison look like he was a mad laugher. —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
 

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/sɪnkrəˈnɪsɪti/
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