Happenstance Definition

hăpən-stăns
noun
Chance; fortuity.
Webster's New World
A chance or accidental happening.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Happenstance

Noun

Singular:
happenstance
Plural:
happenstances

Origin of Happenstance

  • Blend of happening and circumstance.

    From Wiktionary

  • happen (circum)stance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • happen (circum)stance

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Happenstance Sentence Examples

  • However, that doesn't mean you have to hand your decision over to happenstance.

  • Now, through happenstance I learn of a way this heartache might be sometimes prevented.

  • Sometimes sought out, sometimes rejected, sometimes around by force of habit or mere happenstance.

  • By happenstance and an especially wonderful quirk of fate, sometimes the pressure is so extreme as to compress the diamond crystals creating red, pink, and brown hued diamonds.

  • While some yards and gardens can be grown through happenstance, a water garden is typically created by the gardener.

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Words Starting With

HHAHAP

Words Ending With

ECENCE

Unscrambles

happenstance

Words Starting With H and Ending With E

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Word Length

12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With H12 Letter Words Ending With E