FORTUITOUSNESS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

fortuitousness

noun

Definition of fortuitousness

as in uncertainty

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Noun

As housing costs rise, residency policies change, remote work matures, and global uncertainty reshapes long-term planning, prospective expats are looking beyond yesterday's relocation favorites.

— Meggen Harris, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Some state officials criticized the move as adding unneeded instability and uncertainty to running elections.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 July 2026

Definition of uncertainty

Noun

In the Wild Card (best of 3) or Division Series (best of 5), there is enough randomness for rosters built on smaller payrolls to succeed.

— Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
The randomness and unpredictability of existence, the mindless violence of it, necessitated myth.

— Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of randomness

Noun

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

Mitchell Michalak, an epidemiologist with the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, said ER visits here for injuries related to e-bike and e-scooter accidents jumped 273% from 2022 to 2025.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
Another American frontier model refused to help defend it, on principle, not by accident.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of accident

Noun

In a meeting with media executives last month, Pezeshkian said preserving national unity and cohesion is Iran’s top priority under current circumstances.

— Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
In those circumstances, and with United looking at options on the left wing, including Crysencio Summerville, the prospect of Rashford returning, thus saving the club a fee for a new signing, has increased.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of circumstance

Noun

Prosecutors have also had luck securing convictions by working with the Department of Justice to file federal charges for distributing fentanyl that later results in death.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Aslanoglou, who was born and trained in Greece, is hoping for better luck.

— Connie Ogle July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

Definition of luck

Noun

The suit also contends that the defendants directed workers to use the elevator despite the hazards and failed to follow OSHA safety standards.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
Doing this creates microscopic dust, which is an immediate health hazard.

— Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 July 2026

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