Associations to the word «Happenstance»

Wiktionary

HAPPENSTANCE, noun. (countable) A chance or random event or circumstance.
HAPPENSTANCE, noun. (uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.

Dictionary definition

HAPPENSTANCE, noun. An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope