Definition of Serendepity
- Making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things not in quest of.
- Discovering something by accident while investigating something quite different. For example, finding a biological culture "ruined" by mould, and discovering the antibiotic penicillin as a consequence.
- A fortunate occurence created by unanticipated luck.
quotations:
*"Call it a mid-life crisis; call it divine intervention or simply serendipity, but his employer, Matt Prentice, happened to know that at that moment over at the Scott Building there was a new kitchen just waiting for the right person to run it." —Detroit News, October 7, 2005
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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