serendipity
Meanings
Plural: serendipities
Noun
- good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
- A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
- An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
- The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
Origin / Etymology
From Serendip (“variant of Serendib: Ceylon, Sri Lanka”) + -ity. Coined by English writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 based on the Persian story of The Three Princes of Serendip, who (Walpole wrote to a friend) were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
Synonyms
accident, adventure, casualty, chance, chance-medley, fortune, hap, hazard, joss, luck, serendipity, weird
Antonyms
Murphy's law, perfect storm
Scrabble Score: 17
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