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English Dictionary: fortuity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fortuity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fortuity n 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" Synonym(s): accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fortuity \Fortu"ity\, n. [Cf. F. fortuit[82].] Accident; chance; casualty. --D. Forbes (1750).