variants
or Kismet
1
: a hypothetical force or personified power that determines the course of the future events : fate, destiny
… we left much of the trip planning to kismet and synchronicity, grateful for a chance to lose ourselves in the magic generated by anomalies, towering redwoods and sea air.—Tanya Ward Goodman
They didn't know it right away, but when Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt met at a New York theater retreat in the late '90s, it was kismet.—Elaina Patton
[Richard] Wiseman [psychologist and luck researcher] has found that luck is not so much kismet but the result of a set of behaviors that you can choose to practice.—Jessica Glazer
The next day I met the Dalai Lama again after meeting him in Sydney two weeks earlier (I think it's Kismet).—Ruby Wax
2
: an inevitable and often bad outcome, condition, or end that a particular person or thing will experience : fate sense 2a
If it was her kismet to die this year, there was no point in defying fate.—Amir Taheri
"This is my Kismet," they say if they lose a relative to war or illness, or if a job or a fortune falls into their laps.—Christopher Torchia
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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