SERENDIPITY


Meaning of SERENDIPITY in English

n. the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. serendipitous adj. serendipitously adv.

[ coined by Horace Walpole (1754) after The Three Princes of Serendip (Sri Lanka), a fairy-tale ]

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