happenstance
\ HAP-uhn-stans \, noun;
1.a chance happening or event.
Quotes:
“Do you really believe we are just the products of circumstance and happenstance ?” “Yes, I think so…"
-- Robert Henry Wright Jr., "Papelón: A Novel of Argentina," 2007
A pimple of a hillock here, a blue-gray mare there, a rumpled dark side. But not an anatomy: bleak evidence, rather, of heavenly happenstance .
-- John Updike, "Toward the End of Time," 1997
Origin:
Happenstance came to English in the late 1800s and is a portmanteau of happen and circumstance .
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