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Casualty vs Coincidence - What's the difference?

casualty | coincidence |

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

Noun

(casualties)
  • (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
  • *, NYRB 2001, vol.1, p.327-8:
  • The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty , and multitude […].
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    (sense, hospital's accident and emergency) * emergency / emergency room / emergency department / emergency ward / /ER * casualty department / casualty ward * accident and emergency /

    Derived terms

    * casualty department * casualty event * casualty ward

    coincidence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (in analysis) coincidence point

    Derived terms

    * coincidence point * coincidence theory * index of coincidence * Lefschetz coincidence theorem