同义词是,contingency,occasionality,fortuity,chance。中文意思是n.偶然性, 意外发现美好事物的运气,机缘巧合
The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who "were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of".