'Fortuity' definitions:
Definition of 'fortuity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event]
Definition of 'Fortuity'
From: GCIDE
- Fortuity \For*tu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. fortuit['e].] Accident; chance; casualty. --D. Forbes (1750). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fortuity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accident,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- adventure,
- break,
- casualness,
- casualty,
- chance,
- chance hit,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- destiny,
- fate,
- fluke,
- flukiness,
- fortuitousness,
- fortune,
- freak accident,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- hazard,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- law of averages,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- lot,
- luck,
- lucky shot,
- moira,
- opportunity,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- random sample,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- statistical probability,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- whatever comes