serendipity
noun
[ ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti ]
• the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
• "a fortunate stroke of serendipity"
Similar:
chance,
happy chance,
accident,
happy accident,
fluke,
luck,
good luck,
good fortune,
fortuity,
fortuitousness,
providence,
coincidence,
happy coincidence,
Origin:
1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.
