SERENDIPITY


Meaning of SERENDIPITY in English

n. the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.

Derivatives:

serendipitous adj. serendipitously adv.

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

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.