Coincidence vs Circumstantial - What's the difference?
coincidence | circumstantial |
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.
Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
* Sharp
Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
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* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 326:
Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
(chiefly, in the plural) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
As nouns the difference between coincidence and circumstantial
is that coincidence is while circumstantial is (chiefly|in the plural) something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.As an adjective circumstantial is
pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.coincidence
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (in analysis) coincidence pointDerived terms
* coincidence point * coincidence theory * index of coincidence * Lefschetz coincidence theoremcircumstantial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship and what is merely circumstantial .
- For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief
- Second-hand but clearly from the best possible source - the King himself - [the story] is highly circumstantial , taking twenty-two pages of text.
Noun
(en noun)- the circumstantials of religion