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fortuity

[ UK /fɔːtjˈuːɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
    the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck
    it was due to an accident or fortuity
    winning the lottery was a happy accident

How To Use fortuity In A Sentence

  • But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
  • Dam you both seem to have some intestinal fortuity to maybe stand up and get the help needed to be able to deal in the real world. Think Progress » Kit Bond: Democrats ‘put red bandanas on their head’ for a ‘Kamikaze mission’ to provide health reform.
  • To make my own happiness the end of my moral activity-eudemonism-is irrational and immoral; for, because of the fortuity of the outward conditions of happiness, and of the heterogeneousness of claims upon happiness, the moral would be rendered dependent upon accident and. caprice. Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
  • Enjoy your last full week in an oasis of fortuity.
  • Whether this model came about by malicious design or fortuity, the result is legal way to prevent consumers from exercising consumer choice and punishing companies for poor service. To Avoid Billions In Lawsuits, Cellphone Companies Propose Tepid Early Termination Fee Reform - The Consumerist
  • It may well be that the words were the fortuitous effect of wind, but the message they convey is clear, and I think our subjects would not gamble on the fortuity.
  • The meeting of Baryshnikov and Judson was, it seems, a fortuity waiting to happen.
  • Heartz's study of fortuity is particularly intriguing.
  • Insurance is the purchase of an indemnity against the risk of loss caused by a fortuity.
  • They provide up close accounts of the bombings and their aftermath and illustrate how survival often hinged on the fortuity of just where they were at the time of the blast. Book Review: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino « A Progressive on the Prairie
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