synchronicity
noun
syn·chro·nic·i·ty
ˌsiŋ-krə-ˈni-sə-tē
ˌsin-
plural synchronicities
1
: the quality or fact of being synchronous
2
: the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (such as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality
—used especially in the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung
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