Definition of "synchronicity" []

• The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism. (noun)
• Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality. (noun)

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• "Jung used the word synchronicity for ‘meaningful coincidence,’ which he said was a concept possible only because an observer and connected event are products of the same source."
• "It was not until May 1930 that he invented the term synchronicity"
• "As a consequence of this experience, Jung coined the word "synchronicity" to explain these inexplicable occurrences."