fortuitousness
noun[U]
formaluk/fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.nəs/us/fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.nəs/thefactof something that is toyouradvantagehappeningbychance,ratherthan beingplanned:
Hefeltguiltat thesheerfortuitousness of havingsurvivedtheearthquake.
There is always anelementof fortuitousness insociallife.
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fortuitous
- Thepoemtalksof theapparentfortuitousness ofevents.
- For somecultures,successfuladaptationoccursthrough fortuitousness.
- the fortuitousness ofexistence
Chance and randomness
- accident
- aleatory
- arbitrarily
- arbitrariness
- arbitrary
- even-money
- fluke
- fluky
- fortuitous
- fortuitously
- luck
- luck intosomething
- more by accident than designidiom
- more by luck than judgmentidiom
- non-purposive
- randomized
- randomly
- randomness
- serendipitous
- stumble intosomething