plural synchronicities
Definition of synchronicity
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 C. G. Jung
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The first known use of synchronicity was circa 1889
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