FORTUITOUSNESS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

fortuitousness

noun

Definition of fortuitousness

as in uncertainty

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Noun

The song’s origins offer a glimpse into the uncertainty surrounding Nicks and Buckingham before their personal lives became intertwined with Fleetwood Mac’s rise to superstardom.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026
The era of agentic AI has arrived, but there is uncertainty about what the landscape will look like when virtual storefronts become flooded with AI agents or when a business tries to block them.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of uncertainty

Noun

And that the disparate approaches to roster construction show that what actually matters is a combination of timing, randomness, luck, and talent.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
The draft is titled ‘Collapse of Determinism’ and addresses one of the major problems in quantum physics – randomness of events.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of randomness

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Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.

— Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.

— SAM ROBERTS, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018

Definition of fortuity

Noun

Five, including Amazon, Kohl's and Neiman Marcus, explicitly restrict them, while 37 block shopping agents largely by accident, through older bot rules written for scrapers.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
The goal of Daimler’s systems is not necessarily to bring the truck to a full stop from any speed, though that can be a best-case scenario in many of these potential accidents.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of accident

Noun

The prince didn’t have any luck in blocking Kelce, which comes as little surprise given the Chiefs star knows how to avoid defensive players.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Halloween fireballs Our last pick is going to take a great deal of patience, and a good amount of luck!

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of luck

Noun

Primary hazards include occasional lightning, wind gusts up to 35 mph and heavy rainfall.

— Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Lee said the Buildings Department, the Fire Services Department and the Labor Department had shortcomings in supervision over fire hazards of the apartment complex.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of hazard

Noun

Today, she’s stalled out and blaming her failure on happenstance.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
First, there’s Bertha Manchester (Linda Reiter), who, in a morbid bit of happenstance, was actually killed in a brutal axe murder just days before Lizzie’s trial.

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of happenstance

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