Both Uses of
coincidence
in
Franny and Zooey
- I mean it's so hard to just say it's absolute coincidence and then just let it go at that—that's what's so fascinating to me.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- "I just think it's a terribly peculiar coincidence," she said, exhaling smoke, "that you keep running into that kind of advice—I mean all these really advanced and absolutely unbogus religious persons that keep telling you if you repeat the name of God incessantly, something happens, Even in India.†
Chpt 1.2
Definition:
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(coincidence) a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
(for example, if two students in the same class met by accident while visiting another country)