Difference between Coincidence and Happenstance

What is the difference between Coincidence and Happenstance?

Coincidence as a noun is of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place. while Happenstance as a noun is a chance or random event or circumstance.

Coincidence

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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. A coincidence point.

Example sentence: Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

Happenstance

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A chance or random event or circumstance.The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.

Example sentence: As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

We hope you now know whether to use Coincidence or Happenstance in your sentence.

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