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incidentally adverb [ ɪnsɪˈdɛnt(ə)li ]

• used to add a further comment or a remark unconnected to the current subject; by the way.
• "incidentally, it was many months before the whole truth was discovered"
Similar: by the way, by the by(e), in passing, en passant, speaking of which, while on the subject, parenthetically, BTW, as it happens,
• in an incidental manner; as a chance occurrence.
• "the infection was discovered only incidentally at post-mortem examination"
Similar: by chance, by accident, accidentally, fortuitously, by a fluke, as luck would have it, by a twist of fate, coincidentally, by coincidence, by happenstance,


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