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Is it called synchronicity or coincidence?

You know those times when you shake your head and say, "How did that happen"?
You are singing a song then it comes on the radio, you are looking a group photograph and someone in the picture knocks on your door, you are doing a crossword puzzle and watching a movie at the same time - the answer to a clue shows up in the movie at the exact time.
Just now I was driving on the Kwinana Freeway in Perth listening to the radio.
The announcer was talking about The Old Mill in South Perth and how it was going to be open to the public today. As I look sideways, I am passing the Old Mill in South Perth.
Do you experience theses happenings?
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
synchronicity
sĭng″krə-nĭs′ĭ-tē, sĭn″-
noun

1. The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous; synchronism.

2. Coincidence of events that appear meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected, taken by Jungian psychoanalytic theory to be evidence of a connection between the mind and material objects.

3. Synchronism.

Coincidence doesn't have to happen at the same time. Just seemingly related without understanding why. Syn-chron-icity has the time (chron) factor in it.

Coincidence has a larger scope than synchronicity.

Notice they use coincidence to define synchronicity.

Also notice synchronicity is a Jungian psychoanalytic term.