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coincidence
This word carries a sense of mystery or surprise, often triggering a feeling of fate or luck. It describes the mental friction we feel when two unrelated events align so perfectly that our brains instinctively search for a hidden reason or a secret plan. In technical or geometric settings, the term loses its mystical quality and becomes a precise description of spatial alignment. Here, it refers to the literal overlapping of objects or lines, stripped of any emotional or accidental connotation.
Countable when referring to a specific accidental event (a strange coincidence). Uncountable when referring to the general phenomenon of things happening by chance (by coincidence).
Meanings
A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
"It was a complete coincidence that we both wore the same dress to the party."