serendipity
noun/ˌserənˈdɪpəti/
/ˌserənˈdɪpəti/
[uncountable]- the fact of something interesting or pleasant happening by chance
- Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true serendipity!
Word Origin1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of”.Definitions on the go
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