serendipity

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

serendipia

hallazgo agradable encontrado por casualidad

buena racha

hallazgo fortuito

serendipidad

serendipicia

Opuesto a

Murphy's law, perfect storm

Sinónimos

fluke

stroke of luck

Traducciones

sérendipité

serendipità

serendipidade

Serendipität

serendipismo

τυχαιότητα

serendipitia

Zufallstreffer

scoperta

aubaine

chance

🎲

serendipiteit

freudige Überraschung

überraschende Erfahrung

unerwartete Entdeckung

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”.