Serendipity
"apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally"
"The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident"
"(talent for) making fortunate and unexpected discoveries by chance"
"the lucky tendency to find interesting or valuable things by chance"
"the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for"
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ORIGIN from Serendip (a former name for Sri Lanka): coined by the English politican and writer Horace Walpole (1717-97), after The Three Princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were always making fortunate discoveries.
PS: ainda tem mais piada por ser intraduzível.... Gosto de palavras assim, que não têm sinómino directo, mas encerram todo um conceito, todo uma forma de ser ou estar. Gosto mesmo!
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