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Meaning of serendipia



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Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

serendipia
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SERENDIPITY: REFERS TO A FORTUITOUS, UNINTENTIONAL AND UNEXPECTED FINDING, OR ON THE OCCASION OF... FIND BY CHANCE.

  



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Francisco Valdez Mendoza

Sust. FEM. Good luck, coincidentally, to offer such a substitute it, find valuable or pleasant things. Drift of the «serendipity» English, Serendip or Serendib ( from Arabic Sarandib ) former name of Ceylon ( today Sri Lanka ). It alludes to the possession of a gift to the heroes of the fairy tale of "The three princesses of Serendip". Example: the donkey who played the flute, the Fable "The donkey flautist», of the Spanish playwright Tomás Iriarte. Synonyms: anything, random chance, chiripa, coincidence, contingency situation, event, unforeseen, Peripeteia. Antonyms: apprehension, certainty, certainty, conjecture, hunch, belief, deduction, hypothesis, indication, induction, inference, foreboding prediction, presumption, forecast, prognosis, assumption, glimpse, viso.

  










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