coincident
adjective
Synonyms
- accompanying
- attendant
- attending
- coexistent
- coexisting
- coincidental
- concomitant
- concurrent
Example Sentences
Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022 The tendency of policymakers to date has been to view the harms from internet platforms not as systemic, but as a series of coincident issues. Roger Mcnamee, Wired, 24 July 2021 Several of our hottest summers in the past decade have been coincident with developing La Niñas. Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020 Also, just because Guillain-Barre Syndrome occurs in a patient diagnosed with COVID-19, that does not imply that it was caused by the virus; this still may be a coincident occurrence. Aarti Sarwal, The Conversation, 7 July 2020 The arrival of the pandemic was also coincident with flu season and the onset of seasonal allergies, which can produce an overlapping set of symptoms. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020 Study co-author James Screen, a researcher at the University of Exeter, says the study relies on three main lines of evidence to conclude that cold mid-latitude winters are coincident with Arctic ice loss. Andrew Freedman, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019 Microsoft has a year to figure out this last mode, because the Surface Neo won’t be released until the end of 2020, coincident with the Windows 10X OS that’s optimized for the Surface Neo. Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 2 Oct. 2019 Study co-author James Screen, a researcher at the University of Exeter, says the study relies on three main lines of evidence to conclude that cold mid-latitude winters are coincident with Arctic ice loss. Andrew Freedman, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019 See More Word History
borrowed from Medieval Latin coincident-, coincidens, present participle of coincidere "to agree in nature, coincide"
circa 1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1
coincident
adjective
Synonyms & Similar Words
- accompanying
- associated
- attending
- attendant
- coincidental
- concurrent
- concomitant
- simultaneous
- subsequent
- coexistent
- resulting
- coexisting
- resultant
- related
- contemporaneous
- consequent
- linked
- synchronous
- connected
- following
- ensuing
- fortuitous
- contemporary
- incident
- accidental
- collateral
- incidental
- chance
- flukey
- freak
- fluky
- casual
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unrelated
- unconnected
- unassociated
Synonyms & Similar Words
- coinciding
- underlying
- overlapping
- intersecting
- concurrent
- superimposed
- superposed
- overlaying
- convergent
- coextensive
- coterminous
- conterminous
- congruent
- conjoining
- coaxial
- crisscrossing
- allover
- conjunctional
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonconcurrent
- noncongruent
Synonyms & Similar Words
- synchronous
- synchronic
- concurrent
- coincidental
- simultaneous
- contemporaneous
- coeval
- accompanying
- incident
- concomitant
- contemporary
- coetaneous
- coexistent
- coextensive
- coterminous
- coexisting
- attending
- attendant
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonsimultaneous
- nonsynchronous
- asynchronous
- noncontemporary
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of coincident are coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, simultaneous, and synchronous. While all these words mean "existing or occurring at the same time," coincident is applied to events and may be used in order to avoid implication of causal relationship.
The meanings of coeval and coincident largely overlap; however, coeval refers usually to periods, ages, eras, eons.
The words contemporaneous and coincident are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, contemporaneous is more often applied to events than to people.
While in some cases nearly identical to coincident, contemporary is likely to apply to people and what relates to them.
In some situations, the words simultaneous and coincident are roughly equivalent. However, simultaneous implies correspondence in a moment of time.
While the synonyms synchronous and coincident are close in meaning, synchronous implies exact correspondence in time and especially in periodic intervals.