serendipity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

serendipity
    n 1: good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "serendipity":
      accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, break,
      bringing to light, casual discovery, casualness, catching, chance,
      chance discovery, destiny, detection, determination, determining,
      disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, espial, excavation,
      exhumation, exposure, fate, find, finding, finding out, flukiness,
      fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gamble, good fortune, good luck,
      hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, how they fall,
      indeterminacy, indeterminateness, invention, law of averages,
      locating, location, lot, luck, lucky strike, moira, opportunity,
      principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness,
      random sample, recognition, rediscovery, revelation, risk,
      run of luck, spotting, statistical probability, strike, the breaks,
      theory of probability, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove,
      uncertainty, uncertainty principle, uncovering, unearthing,
      whatever comes