Serendipity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
  • n. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
  • n. An instance of making such a discovery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident and sagacity.
  • n. A combination of events which are not individually beneficial, but occurring together produce a good or wonderful outcome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The happy faculty, or luck, of finding, by “accidental sagacity,” interesting items of information or unexpected proofs of one's theories; discovery of things unsought: a factitious word humorously invented by Horace Walpole.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    good fortune    good luck    fluke   
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