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fortuity
noun[ C or U ]
formaluk /fɔːˈtjuː.ə.ti/ us /fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬i/
the fact of something good happening by chance, rather than being planned, or an example of this:
The victim's chances of getting compensation often depend more on fortuity than on any law.
They were strangers who had been brought together by the fortuities of war.
Fortuity brought them together when they worked on a film together.
Once all those conditions have been met, you will still need a lot of fortuity.
We discovered a strange fortuity: her mother and my father had been born in the same small town.
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aleatory
arbitrarily
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crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
non-purposive
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
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