coincidental
adjUK /ˈkəʊ.ɪn.sɪˌdɛn.tl̩/
Etymology From co- + incidental.
1
Occurring as or resulting from coincidence.
- Now, I don't know whether this is an example of nominative determinism – a phrase coined by the New Scientist to describe the phenomenon of one's name determining one's career – or aptonymy, the more coincidental occurrence of one's name being particularly fitting for one's personality, but I came across several such examples in the birding world.2009, Alex Horne, Birdwatchingwatching: One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds, →ISBN:
2
Happening or existing at the same time.
- Derived terms
- coincidentalism, noncoincidental, uncoincidental
- Related terms
- cohencidence, cohencidental, coincidence, coincident, coincidentally, coincidently, coincide, incident, accident