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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ities) Date: circa 1747 1. the quality or state of being fortuitous 2. a chance event or occurrence

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a chance occurrence. 2 accident or chance; fortuitousness.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fortuity For*tu"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. fortuit['e].] Accident; chance; casualty. --D. Forbes (1750).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Accidentalness, casualness, chance, contingency.

Moby Thesaurus

accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, adventure, break, casualness, casualty, chance, chance hit, contingency, contingent, destiny, fate, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortune, freak accident, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happening, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, long odds, long shot, lot, luck, lucky shot, moira, opportunity, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, risk, run of luck, serendipity, statistical probability, the breaks, theory of probability, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, whatever comes