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Chance event
Answer for the clue "Chance event ", 8 letters:
fortuity
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Word definitions for fortuity in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1747, from stem of fortuitous + -ity .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fortuity \For*tu"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. fortuit['e].] Accident; chance; casualty. --D. Forbes (1750).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause [syn: accident , chance event ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being fortuitous. 2 (context countable English) A fortuitous event; an accident.
Usage examples of fortuity.
Its survival despite its gangsters' impossible odds of being jailed or killed would carry into the Purple Gang's life span, a fortuity due as much to bullying cops and other criminals as it was to blind luck.
To know that a Mongoloid idiot can experience something you can never know—and that he cannot appreciate it because, like you, he was condemned before birth in a court of biological hapstance, in a place where there is no justice—only fortuity, pure and simple.
The sum was almost an affront to him, its fortuity robbing his years of service of their sense.
Everything lay in a shambles—he stepped on a phaser as he entered—but by simple fortuity, he saw what he needed immediately, lying in a corner and propped up against a dented metal locker.
Everything lay in a shambleshe stepped on a phaser as he enteredbut by simple fortuity, he saw what he needed immediately, lying in a corner and propped up against a dented metal locker.