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Fortuity

noun
1.
Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.  Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke.  "The pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck" , "It was due to an accident or fortuity"






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"Fortuity" Quotes from Famous Books



... scale, wanted Jeff to spread with him, but he refused, because, as he said, he meant to keep out of it altogether; and for the same reason he declined to take part in the spread of a rather jay society he belonged to. In his secret heart he trusted that some friendly fortuity might throw an invitation to Beck Hall in his way, or at least a card for the Gym, which, if no longer the place it had been, was still by no means jay. He got neither; but as he felt all the joy ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Fortuity" :   occurrence, good luck, hap, coincidence, happenstance, natural event, lottery, happening, break, happy chance, accident, occurrent, chance event



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