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happenchance

noun

Etymology

Apparently from happen + chance, perhaps influenced by happenstance.

  1. derived from cadere — “to fall, to die, to happen, occur”
  2. derived from *cadentia✻ — “falling”
  3. derived from cheance — “accident, chance, luck”
  4. inherited from chance
  5. compounded as happenchance — “happen + chance”

Definitions

  1. Coincidence.

    • It may be that some day I will find a respectable population of shells, but that will be mere happenchance.

  2. Characterized by happenstance

    Characterized by happenstance; chance; fortunate or unfortunate.

    • The advent of the Son in the flesh is no happenchance occurrence: it has a hinterland of deliberate and necessary preparation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for happenchance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA