fortuity
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being fortuitous; fortuitous character.
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an accidental occurrence.
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an instance of great luck or good fortune.
noun
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a chance or accidental occurrence
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fortuitousness
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chance or accident
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fortuity
First recorded in 1740–50; fortuit(ous) + -y 3
Example Sentences
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He has managed those so far - but he would not have anticipated reaching the semi-finals with such a heavy reliance on fortuity.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Illinois turned once more to its ground game — with a dash of fortuity reminiscent of the Oakland Raiders’ infamous ‘Holy Roller’ play — to take its only lead of the game.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2021
In short, the scope of 1001 would be limited by the fortuity of the paperwork flow of the investigative agency.
From Slate ● May 7, 2020
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018
It is just to argue that if mindless law or boundless fortuity made this world and brought us here, it may as well make, or have made, another world, and bear us there.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
It was a midtempo ballad about a string of fortuities — a sudden rain shower, a stoplight avoided, a left turn taken — that led to a couple’s meeting in a bar.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2013
John Franklin Enders, 63, got interested in the viruses of polio and measles as the result of a series of fortunate fortuities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just before a Senate adjournment: The moving finger writes, and the fortuities of politics will probably result in change of some faces when we return in January .
From Time Magazine Archive
His real reason was that he wished to stop at Lower Merritt and experience whatever fortuities might happen to him from doing so.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
For that state,—that command—depends on that which 'changes,'— fortuities, impressions, nay, it has the principle of revolution within it.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
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