English-Italian translations for serendipity

serendipitàE’ inevitabile che ricerca significhi anche fare il genere di scoperte derivanti dalla cosiddetta serendipità. The research is also bound to mean making the sort of discoveries that in English is known as ‘serendipity’. Ma ITER non è un'impresa nella quale ci siamo imbarcati con leggerezza o per serendipità. But ITER is not an enterprise that we have entered into lightly or in the expectation of serendipity.
scoperta

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

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