“Serendipity”
June 22, 2012
By: Gina Yoryet
Roman
When
learning a new word I always want to find out the origin as it helps me
increase my knowledge. By researching the meaning of words, it helps me
visualize the whole picture and see the real beauty behind each letter and word
as a whole.
But
I’d never pondered into the beauty of each term until I read an article a few
months ago titled, “La palabra más bonita del idioma español,” – the most
beautiful word in the Spanish language which at this point I don’t even recall.
I’ve
never felt a whole lot of confidence when expressing myself properly in
Spanish, even with this being one of my native languages, I feel very limited
(In other words, ignorant and illiterate) especially when it comes to grammar
and business terminology.
So!
The other day while talking to C. K., the film producer of “The Road to
Tequila,” I mentioned something to him and his reply was, “Serendipity.”
The first thing I said was, “Wow! What a beauty and I loved the way it
sounded too!
Something
in those eleven letters automatically drew me and I was immediately driven to
pay a visit to one of my most faithful friends… google.
I
know many beautiful words in English but never one that covers so much and with
such a profound background.
So
here’s what I found.
The most beautiful word in the English
language - “Serendipity”
Definition
of serendipity:
(n) : an
unsought, unintended, or unexpected discovery, made by accident and sagacity; the
discovery of 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
"Serendipity” is
when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are
looking for is so damn difficult. --Erin McKean,"
Synonyms:
Accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blessing, bringing to light at the
end of the tunnel, casual discovery, casualness, catching, chance discovery, courage,
destiny, detection, determining, disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, espial, exhumation, exposure, fate, find, finding out, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, good fortune, good
luck, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, how they fall, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, invention, law of averages, locating, location, lot, luck, lucky, strike, moira, principle of
indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, rediscovery, revelation, risk, run of luck, spotting, statistical probability, strike the breaks, theory of probability
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