fortuitousness
11Contingentness — Con*tin gent*ness, n. The state of being contingent; fortuitousness. [1913 Webster] …
12fortuitous — adjective Etymology: Latin fortuitus; akin to Latin fort , fors chance more at fortune Date: 1653 1. occurring by chance 2. a. fortunate, lucky < from a cost standpoint, the company s timing is fortuitous Business Week > b. coming or happening by …
13List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …
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15contingency — /keuhn tin jeuhn see/, n., pl. contingencies. 1. dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency. 2. a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on… …
16fortuitous — fortuitously, adv. fortuitousness, n. /fawr tooh i teuhs, tyooh /, adj. 1. happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter. 2. lucky; fortunate: a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career. [1645 55; < L fortuitus,… …
17hazard — hazardable, adj. hazarder, n. hazardless, adj. /haz euhrd/, n. 1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards. 2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of… …
18St. Athanasius — St. Athanasius † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria; Confessor and Doctor of the Church; born c. 296; died 2 May, 373. Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief on the subject of the Incarnation… …
19act of God — often cap A: an extraordinary natural event (as a flood or earthquake) that cannot be reasonably foreseen or prevented compare force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable accident ◇ It is a defense against liability for injury if the injury… …
20chance — I (fortuity) noun advantage, befalling, casus, circumstance, event, favorable time, fortuitousness, good fortune, happening, occasion, opening, suitable circumstance, time associated concepts: arise by chance, last clear chance II (possibility) …
