COINCIDENCE, noun 1. The falling or meeting of two or more lines, surfaces, or bodies in the same point. 2. Concurrence; consistency; agreement; as the coincidence of two or more opinions; coincidence of evidences. 3. A meeting of events in time; concurrence; a happening at the same time; as coincidence of events.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI