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Hi!
Is there a word for ... when you're talking to a friend about someone you haven't seen in quite awhile and that evening the one you were talking about calls?
Serendipity isn't quite it, and deja vu doesn't cover it, either. Hope you can help!
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on a related note..
the worthless word for the day is: diegogarcity
[fr. Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean atoll; after serendipity]
"a term used [at Wordorigins.org] to denote the appearance
of another term in multiple sources shortly after you have
looked it up in the dictionary" (or first noticed it)
"I've heard "diegogarcity" suggested for this, which was
coined along these lines: the experience is a little like
serendipity. The etymology for the latter word relates to
the island, Serendip, in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia
is another island in those waters, providing a parallel
for serendipity if such be desired."
- Peter Moylan, alt.usage.english April 28, 2006
-joe (yet another neologism) friday
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My point is that you don't remember all the times you're talking about a friend that you haven't seen for some time and that friend doesn't call you that evening or the times the old friend calls when you haven't been talking about them.
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There's a word in the world of skeptics for what Faldage is saying, but I don't remember it. The classic case is the mom who "had a feeling something was going to happen" when her child has a car accident. Of course, she discounts the fact that she has that feeling every time the child takes the car.
"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous
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Synchronicity has the flavor of cause and effect at a distance that's missing from coincidence. The friend somehow caused you to think of him because he was thinking of you before he called.
"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous
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My buddy Carl thinks differently:
According to its creator, Carl Jung. Synchronicity explains "meaningful coincidences," such as a beetle flying into his room while a patient was describing a dream about a scarab. His notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception.
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How is that different from thinking about a person and meeting him/ her? Except for that a person does not fly? I think I do not understand the "meaningful". But... 
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I guess I don't see how that differs from what I said. Maybe I didn't express myself well enough.
"I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous
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