serendipity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
serendipity
n.
ability to make valuable discoveries by accident; instance of making a valuable discovery by accident; unintended but fortunate discovery that that occurred by accident
Serendipity
Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by
Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale,
The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
serendipity
Noun
1. good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
(hypernym) good luck, fluke, good fortune
serendipity
Synonyms and related words:
accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, break, bringing to light, casual discovery, casualness, catching, chance, chance discovery, destiny, detection, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, espial, excavation, exhumation, exposure, fate, find, finding, finding out, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, invention, law of averages, locating, location, lot, luck, lucky strike, moira, opportunity, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, recognition, rediscovery, revelation, risk, run of luck, spotting, statistical probability, strike, the breaks, theory of probability, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, uncovering, unearthing, whatever comes
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
serendipity
serendipity /,seren'dipiti/- danh từ
- khả năng cầu may (khả năng tình cờ phát hiện những cái bất ngờ và may mắn)
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