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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats