Fate vs. Coincidence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fate and Coincidence
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Definitions
Fate➦
The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events
Fate did not favor his career.
Coincidence➦
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims.
Fate➦
The inevitable events predestined by this force
It was her fate to marry a lout.
Coincidence➦
A remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection
They met by coincidence
It was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey like Laura's
Fate➦
A final result or consequence; an outcome
What was the fate of your project?.
Coincidence➦
The fact of corresponding in nature or in time of occurrence
The coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians
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Fate➦
An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death
Suffered a fate worse than death.
The island where the explorer met his fate.
Coincidence➦
The presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit.
Fate➦
Fates Greek & Roman Mythology The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny. Used with the.
Coincidence➦
The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
Fate➦
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
Coincidence➦
A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.
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Fate➦
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Coincidence➦
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
Fate➦
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
Coincidence➦
Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.
Fate➦
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
Accept your fate.
Coincidence➦
(analysis) A coincidence point.
Fate➦
(mythology) Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Coincidence➦
(geometry) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
Fate➦
(biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
Coincidence➦
The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
Fate➦
(embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
Coincidence➦
The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Fate➦
(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
Coincidence➦
Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement.
The very concurrence and coincidence of so many evidences . . . carries a great weight.
Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness.
Fate➦
A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Necessity and chanceApproach not me; and what I will is fate.
Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments.
Coincidence➦
An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
Fate➦
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
The great, th'important day, big with the fateOf Cato and of Rome.
Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown.
The whizzing arrow sings,And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.
Coincidence➦
The quality of occupying the same position or area in space;
He waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs
Fate➦
The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams.
Coincidence➦
The temporal property of two things happening at the same time;
The interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable
Fate➦
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Fate➦
An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
Fate➦
The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);
We are helpless in the face of Destiny
Fate➦
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Whatever my fortune may be
Deserved a better fate
Has a happy lot
The luck of the Irish
A victim of circumstances
Success that was her portion
Fate➦
Decree or designate beforehand;
She was destined to become a great pianist
