Casualty vs Coincidence - What's the difference?
casualty | coincidence |
(obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
*, NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
(British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
(analysis) A coincidence point.
A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
As nouns the difference between casualty and coincidence
is that casualty is chance nature; randomness while coincidence is of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.casualty
English
(wikipedia casualty)Noun
(casualties)- The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty , and multitude […].