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fortuity

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The state of being fortuitous.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fortuitousness, luck, felicity, fortune, fortuity, good cess, good fortune, good luck, happiness, adventure, accident, casualty, chance, chance-medley, hap, hazard, joss, serendipity, weird

Antonyms: adverseness, unluckiness, unfortunateness, adversity, bad cess, bad luck, disadventure, hard luck, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, misluck, tough luck, unluck

2

noun

Meaning 2

A fortuitous event; an accident.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: good fortune, accident, befalling, chance, contingency, casualty, fortuity

Antonyms: adversity, misfortune, nakba

3

noun

Meaning 3

anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • winning the lottery was a happy accident
  • the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck
  • it was due to an accident or fortuity

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: accident, stroke, chance event

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event

Narrower terms: hap, break, good luck, happy chance, coincidence, happenstance, lottery

History

Etymology

From fortuitous + -ity, from Latin fortuītus.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: случайност (slučajnost) — state of being fortuitous
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偶然性 (ǒuránxìng) — state of being fortuitous
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偶合性 (ǒuhéxìng) — state of being fortuitous
  • Finnish: onnekkuus — state of being fortuitous
  • Finnish: hyväonnisuus — state of being fortuitous
  • French: hasard — state of being fortuitous
  • German: Zufälligkeit — state of being fortuitous
  • Japanese: 偶然性 (gūzensei) — state of being fortuitous
  • Japanese: 偶然 (gūzen) — state of being fortuitous
  • Kazakh: кездейсоқтық (kezdeisoqtyq) — state of being fortuitous
  • Russian: случа́йность (slučájnostʹ) — state of being fortuitous
  • Spanish: azar — state of being fortuitous
  • Bulgarian: непредвиден случай (nepredviden slučaj) — fortuitous event
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偶然事件 (ǒurán shìjiàn) — fortuitous event
  • Finnish: sattuma — fortuitous event
  • Finnish: onnenpotku — fortuitous event
  • French: hasard — fortuitous event
  • German: Zufall — fortuitous event
  • Russian: случа́йность (slučájnostʹ) — fortuitous event
  • Russian: слу́чай (slúčaj) — fortuitous event
  • Spanish: azar — fortuitous event