fortuityn.
/fɔːˈtjuːᵻti/, /fɔːˈtʃuːᵻti/, U.S. /fɔrˈt(j)uədi/ Fortuitous character, fortuitousness; accident, chance; an accidental occurrence. Occasionally used for: Appearance of fortuitousness or unstudiedness.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun]
i-wonc1275
casec1300
adventurec1325
hap1340
accidencea1393
casualty1423
chefe1440
fortunityc1470
enchance?a1475
accidentc1485
chance1526
contingencec1530
lottery1570
casuality1574
chanceableness1581
contingency1623
fortuitiona1641
fortuitness1643
accidentalness1648
accidentality1651
fortuitousness1652
causelessnessa1660
temerity1678
fortuitya1747
spontaneity1751
felicity1809
accidentiality1814
the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unplanned quality or action
impulsion1532
autoschediastic1641
impulsiveness1659
extemporariness1671
impulse1763
extemporaneousness1764
unpremeditatedness1769
undesignednessa1774
unpremeditation1807
undeliberateness1817
spontaneity1826
improvisation1833
fortuity1860
impulsivity1891
a1747 D. Forbes Incredulity 80 How they can be sure, that those deserved judgments were the effect of mere fortuity.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ in Wks. (1825) III. 194 Forgeries confirming and falling in with one another by a species of fortuity.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) vi. 110 It is by the fortuities of life that the religious enthusiast is deluded.
1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. 245 One of the company, by some immense fortuity, could read.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vii. 100 She looks..at her bracelets, and adjusts their clasps with that pretty studied fortuity which [etc.].
1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory (1886) II. ii. i. 372 Nothing that might not happen in a universe of fortuity.
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