serendipity

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, uncountable) A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
2. (countable, uncountable) An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
3. (countable, uncountable) The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Konzepte

Serendipität

Zufallstreffer

zufällige Entdeckung

glücklicher Zufall

unverhofftes Glück

glückliche Fügung

wunderbares Geschehen

überraschendes Ereignis

wunderbares Zusammentreffen

unerwartete Entdeckung

überraschende Erfahrung

freudige Überraschung

Entdeckung

überraschendes Erlebnis

Serendipity

Gegenteil von

Murphy's law, perfect storm

Synonyme

fluke

stroke of luck

Übersetzungen

sérendipité

serendipità

serendipidade

serendipismo

serendipia

τυχαιότητα

chance

🎲

serendipitia

aubaine

scoperta

serendipiteit

serendipicia

coup de pot

heureux hazard

gelukkig toeval

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Serendip (“variant of Serendib: Ceylon, Sri Lanka”) + -ity. Coined by English writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 based on the Persian story of The Three Princes of Serendip, who (Walpole wrote to a friend) were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.