serendipity
(noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
serendipity (countable and uncountable, plural serendipities)
A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
Antonyms: Murphy's law, perfect storm
An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
Synonyms: chance, luck, Thesaurus:luck
Serendipity is sometimes used loosely as a synonym for luck; more careful usage, particularly in science, emphasizes specifically "finding something when looking for something else, thanks to an observant mind".
The term was virtually unknown until the 1870s, and gained currency in the early 20th century. It became popularized at mid-century, and is now widely used.
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
