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fortuity

noun
for·​tu·​i·​ty | \ fȯr-ˈtü-É™-tÄ“ How to pronounce fortuity (audio) , -ˈtyü-, fÉ™r-\
plural fortuities

Definition of fortuity

1 : the quality or state of being fortuitous
2 : a chance event or occurrence

Examples of fortuity in a Sentence

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 Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity. — Sam Roberts, New York Times, "Escape from New York, or Embracing It Within One City Block," 31 Jan. 2018

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First Known Use of fortuity

circa 1747, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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