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fortuity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fortuity has 1 sense
- fortuity(n = noun.event) accident, chance event, stroke - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
has particulars: hap, break, good luck, happy chance, coincidence, happenstance, lottery
CIDE DICTIONARY
fortuity, n. [Cf. F. fortuité.].
Accident; chance; casualty. D. Forbes (1750). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fortuity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a chance occurrence.
2 accident or chance; fortuitousness.
1 a chance occurrence.
2 accident or chance; fortuitousness.
THESAURUS
fortuity
accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, adventure, break, casualness, casualty, chance, chance hit, contingency, contingent, destiny, fate, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortune, freak accident, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happening, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, long odds, long shot, lot, luck, lucky shot, moira, opportunity, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, risk, run of luck, serendipity, statistical probability, the breaks, theory of probability, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes
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