Tuesday, 7 April 2026
serendipity
noun
The occurrence of events by chance in a happy and beneficial way. Luck that you could not have planned for.
Nuance
Coined by Horace Walpole after the fairy tale of "The Three Princes of Serendip": the word was itself a serendipitous invention.
“It was pure serendipity that they were both on that platform at that moment.”