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serendipity /sɛr(ə)n’dɪpɪti/ n. the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. □ serendipitous adj. serendipitously adv. [coined by Horace Walpole (1754) after The Three Princes of Serendip (now Sri Lanka), a fairy tale]

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