serendipity

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

serendipità

scoperta

Opposto di

Murphy's law, perfect storm

sinonimi

fluke

stroke of luck

Traduzioni

sérendipité

serendipidade

serendipismo

Serendipität

serendipia

τυχαιότητα

Zufallstreffer

serendipitia

serendipiteit

aubaine

chance

🎲

überraschende Erfahrung

unerwartete Entdeckung

freudige Überraschung

wunderbares Zusammentreffen

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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”.