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n. - The quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance.

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  • Adjective : a fortuitous encounter. ,a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career
  • We take things as they come, serene in fortuitousness.
  • For if there is any one thing that the materialists insist upon more resolutely than another, it is the fortuitousness of nature -- the happening by chance of whatever...
  • And if so, where then would be the fortuitousness that is the very essence of occurrences that glide, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, into the domain of Fact, and...
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