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FORTUITOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fortuitousness mean?
• FORTUITOUSNESS (noun)
The noun FORTUITOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance
Familiarity information: FORTUITOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fortuitousness" is a kind of...):
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)
Derivation:
fortuitous (occurring by happy chance)
fortuitous (having no cause or apparent cause)
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