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Another word for happenchance

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Noun

  1. An unexpected random event

      1. (Philosophy) A circumstance or attribute that is not essential to the nature of something.
      2. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm:
      3. Fortune; chance
      1. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:
      2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
      3. A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity:
      1. A chance occurrence:
      2. (Games) An accidentally good or successful stroke in billiards or pool.
      3. (Informal) A result, esp. a successful one, brought about by accident; stroke of luck
      1. The quality or condition of being fortuitous
      2. (Countable) A fortuitous event; an accident
      3. Chance or chance occurrence
      1. An occurrence or happening, esp. an unfortunate one
      2. Chance; luck; lot
      3. Fortune; chance.
      1. (Uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.
      2. A chance circumstance:
      1. (--- Archaic) Something risked
      2. A chance of being injured or harmed:
      3. (Archaic) Chance or an accident.
    See also:

    certain

    surprise

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