Meaning of FORTUITY
| Pronunciation: | | for'tooitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause |
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| | Synonyms: | | accident, chance event |
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| | See Also: | | break, coincidence, good luck, hap, happening, happenstance, happy chance, lottery, natural event, occurrence | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \For*tu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. fortuit['e].]
Accident; chance; casualty. --D. Forbes (1750).
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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