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Serendipity   /sˌɛrəndˈɪpɪti/   Listen
Serendipity

noun
1.
Good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries.





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"Serendipity" Quotes from Famous Books



... virtues I would recommend to any one, who would fit himself to live happily as well as efficiently, the cultivation of that auxiliary virtue or grace which Horace Walpole called "Serendipity." Walpole defined it in a letter to Sir Horace Mann: "It is a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavor to explain to you; you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers


Words linked to "Serendipity" :   good fortune, good luck, fluke, serendipitous


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