
Synchronicity
No Cause Required
Remind learners that 'synchronicity' refers to related events without a cause, differing from direct cause-effect situations.
Finding your old friend at the same café abroad involved synchronicity, as there was no previous planning.
Beware Overuse
Avoid overusing 'synchronicity' to describe any coincidence; it should be reserved for meaningful or striking ones.
Their simultaneous arrival at the conclusion was a synchronicity that puzzled the class.
Subjective Interpretation
Understand that 'synchronicity' can be subjective; what seems synchronistic to one person may not to another.
He saw synchronicity in the similar themes of the two books, though others disagreed.
Compare with
CoincidenceConvergenceCorrelateCorrespondenceHarmonyParallelSerendipitySimultaneity
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