fortuity

1. 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”

   Synonymsaccidentstrokechance event

   Broaderhappening

   Narrowerhapbreakcoincidencelottery

Other forms of fortuity

plural

fortuities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fortuity

What does fortuity mean?

fortuity means "anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause".

How many syllables are in fortuity?

fortuity has 4 syllables: for-tu-i-ty. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for fortuity?

Close synonyms include accident, stroke, chance event. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fortuity a common word?

fortuity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.