HOW TO PRONOUNCE
serendipity
/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/
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Stress DIP. Keep the surrounding syllables lighter, and finish with the ee sound in happy.
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“A moment of serendipity.”
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noun
- The phenomenon of making an unplanned, fortunate discovery through a combination of unexpected circumstances and insightful recognition.
More meanings (2)
noun
- An unsought, unintended or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery or learning experience that occurs by accident.
- The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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/ˌsɛɹ.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.ti/
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There is a faculty which Horace Walpole named “serendipity,”—the luck of falling on just the literary document which one wants at the moment.
This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition.