Other dictionaries see happenstance as meaning more a single chance event producing an effect with coincidence meaning two or more events (not necessarily the same event) happening in the same time and place to produce the effect. Now I think about it I recall some discussion on coincidence in a juristic sense involving bricks fallling from building sites.
I find £5 on the street - happenstance.
You drop £5 just as a bus passes which blows the £5 note across the street where I am passing = coincidence.
Ed Balls turns up and turns out to be Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper claims our £5, enemy action.
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Date: 2024-06-12 09:09 am (UTC)I find £5 on the street - happenstance.
You drop £5 just as a bus passes which blows the £5 note across the street where I am passing = coincidence.
Ed Balls turns up and turns out to be Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper claims our £5, enemy action.