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Fortuity

noun

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

... examined it gravely; but eventually laid it down, with the remark, that he could not read. However, one of the company, by some immense fortuity, could read; and proud of so rare an accomplishment, took it, ...

— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade

... fancy. I have even at a pinch clubbed them to death in a shallow, land-locked pool. Time will come in your open-water canoe experience when you will pull into shelter half full of water, when you will be glad of the fortuity of a chance cross-wave to help you out, when sheer blind luck, or main strength and awkwardness, will be the only reasons you can honestly give for an arrival, and a battered and dishevelled arrival at that. Do not, therefore, repine, or bewail your awkwardness, or indulge ...

— The Forest • Stewart Edward White

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