English-French translations for serendipity

• sérendipité
  Mais ITER n'est pas une entreprise que nous avons mise en route à la légère ou dans l'espoir de sérendipité. But ITER is not an enterprise that we have entered into lightly or in the expectation of serendipity.
• aubaine
• chance
• coup de pot
• heureux hazard

Definition of serendipity

• A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome
• An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident

Related words

• serenity
• serene
• serenade
• serendipitous
• serendipitously
• serena
• serenely
• Serengeti
• serenissimus