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serendipity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of serendipity

literary the unexpected occurrence of or faculty for finding valuable or agreeable things that are not sought

They found each other by pure serendipity.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of serendipity

blessing, boon, fluke, godsend, hit, strike, windfall

fortunateness, fortune, luck, luckiness

break, chance, coincidence, opportunity

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of serendipity

knock, misadventure, mishap

adversity, curse, debacle (also débâcle), sorrow, tragedy, trouble

calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster

defeat, failure, fizzle, nonachievement, nonsuccess

accident, casualty

disappointment, lapse, letdown, reversal, reverse, setback, slipup

circumstance, destiny, doom, fate, lot, portion

mischance, misfortune, unluckiness

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