重なり
Meanings
1
overlapping; piling up; stacking
Refers to things being placed one on top of another, or events occurring at the same time. Often used for physical layers, schedules, or abstract coincidences.
I organize the stack of documents.
I cannot attend due to overlapping schedules.
Usage patterns
- 〈事〉の重なりan overlapping/piling up of events (coincidences)
Worn out by one bad thing piling up after another, he was completely exhausted.
- 偶然の重なりa coincidence; a string of coincidences
It was just a series of coincidences.
- 重なりが生じるan overlap occurs (e.g. in a schedule)
A scheduling conflict came up.
- 重なりを避けるto avoid an overlap
We adjusted things to avoid overlapping meeting times.