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Meaning of "fortuity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FORTUITY

fortuity  [fɔːˈtjuːɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORTUITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fortuity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORTUITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fortuity

Luck

The definition of Luck varies by philosophical, religious, mystical, or emotional context of the one interpreting it; according to the classic Noah Webster's dictionary, Luck is "a purposeless, unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favorably or unfavorably for an individual, group or cause". Yet the author Max Gunther defines it as "events that influence one's life and are seemingly beyond one's control". When thought of as a factor beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result, there are at least two senses that people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense. In the prescriptive sense, luck is a supernatural and deterministic concept that there are forces which prescribe that certain events occur very much the way laws of physics will prescribe that certain events occur. It is the prescriptive sense that people mean when they say they "do not believe in luck". In the descriptive sense, people speak of luck after events which they find to be fortunate or unfortunate, and maybe improbable.

Definition of fortuity in the English dictionary

The first definition of fortuity in the dictionary is a chance or accidental occurrence. Other definition of fortuity is fortuitousness. Fortuity is also chance or accident.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORTUITY


acuity
əˈkjuːɪtɪ
ambiguity
ˌæmbɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ
annuity
əˈnjuːɪtɪ
assiduity
ˌæsɪˈdjuːɪtɪ
circuity
səˈkjuːɪtɪ
conspectuity
ˌkɒnspɛkˈtjuːɪtɪ
conspicuity
ˌkɒnspɪˈkjuːɪtɪ
contiguity
kɒntɪˈɡjuːɪtɪ
continuity
ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
discontinuity
dɪsˌkɒntɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
fatuity
fəˈtjuːɪtɪ
gratuity
ɡrəˈtjuːɪtɪ
ingenuity
ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
innocuity
ˌɪnəˈkjuːɪtɪ
innocuousness
ˌɪnəˈkjuːɪtɪ
perpetuity
ˌpɜːpɪˈtjuːɪtɪ
perspicuity
ˌpɜːspɪˈkjuːɪtɪ
promiscuity
ˌprɒmɪˈskjuːɪtɪ
strenuity
strɪˈnjuːɪtɪ
vacuity
væˈkjuːɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORTUITY

fortresslike
fortuities
fortuitism
fortuitist
fortuitous
fortuitously
fortuitousness
Fortuna
fortunate
fortunately
fortunateness
fortune
fortune cookie
fortune hunter
fortune-hunter
fortune-hunting
fortune-teller
fortune-telling
fortuneless
fortunize

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORTUITY

antiquity
biscuity
congruity
deferred annuity
employment equity
equity
fruity
immediate annuity
in perpetuity
incongruity
inequity
iniquity
life annuity
negative equity
obliquity
private equity
propinquity
superfluity
tenuity
ubiquity

Synonyms and antonyms of fortuity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fortuity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORTUITY

Find out the translation of fortuity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fortuity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fortuity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偶然性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fortuity
570 millions of speakers

English

fortuity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दैवयोग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصادفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

случайность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fortuity
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আকস্মিক ঘটনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hasard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekasaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zufall
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偶然
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우연성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kasunyatan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đột xuất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fortuity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दैवत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

rastlantı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

casualità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fortuity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

випадковість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fortuite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τυχαιότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fortuity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Fortuity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortuity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fortuity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORTUITY»

The term «fortuity» is regularly used and occupies the 63.212 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORTUITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fortuity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fortuity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fortuity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORTUITY»

Discover the use of fortuity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fortuity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Policyholder's Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage
1 3.06 FORTUITY AND RELATED DOCTRINES [A] General Principles The fortuity doctrine embodies the insurers' coverage defense to the effect that insurance is not available to cover losses that are not "fortuitous." " ' While the term "fortuity" ...
Peter J. Kalis, Thomas M. Reiter, James R. Segerdahl, 1997
2
Silent Covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the ...
13. AFFIRMATIVE. ACTION. AND. RACIAL. FORTUITY. IN. ACTION. THE. CONCLUSIONS OF LEGAL COMMENTATORS about the less than critical role of Brown in post–World War II racial reform are not well known and would probably not ...
Derrick Bell Visiting Professor of Law New York University School of Law, 2004
3
Digest version of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis
Putting into fortuity and Humanism Nature and life belong to the world of fortuity. Because the world of fortuity is brimming with disasters and diseases, we have to hypostatize everything in this world. The representative of this fortuity is the ...
Shinya Nitta, M.D., 2013
4
International Cargo Insurance
Risk is a necessary component of insurance.153 Fortuity 8.42 An implied term in all policies is the requirement that a loss must have been caused by a fortuitous event. A fortuitous event is one that is not caused by: (1) inherent vice; (2) nature  ...
John Dunt, 2013
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Liability Insurance in International Arbitration: The ...
FORTUITY. AND. RELATED. DOCTRINES. A number of related doctrines have arisen from concerns over the 'moral hazard' inherant in insurance—the possibility that the policyholder will seek to insure or recover for a loss falsely.4 Thus in ...
Richard Jacobs, Lorelie S. Masters, Paul Stanley, 2004
6
The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding
These points do not by themselves give us a reason to think that the Gettier problem presents an insuperable obstacle to solving the Meno problem, for even if we cannot eliminate fortuity completely, there may still be kinds of fortuity that it is ...
Jonathan L. Kvanvig, 2003
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The Synonym Finder
fortuity foul 3. lucky, fortunate, happy, felicitous, providential; blessed, favored, in luck, born under a lucky star, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, blessed with luck. fortuity, n. 1. chance, mere chance, happy chance, happenstance, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
8
Business Income Insurance Disputes
no matter how broadly one construes the fortuity concept.”352 Consequently, under the fortuity coverage defense, actual knowledge by the insured that a loss will take place is necessary. For example, in Kilroy Industries v. United Pacific ...
Richard P. Lewis, Nicholas M. Insua, 2012
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Practitioner's Guide to Litigating Insurance Coverage Actions
For that reason, the overwhelming majority of courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, have ruled that fortuity is a prerequisite to coverage even where not expressly stated in the insurance policy. See, e.g., Standard Oil Co. v.
Jerold Oshinsky, Theodore A. Howard, 1998
10
Insurance Coverage Litigation
§15.10 NON-FORTUITY DEFENSES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT Relying on a group of related doctrines — the so-called non-fortuity doctrines of " known loss," "loss-in-progress," and "known risk" — insurance companies often ...
Eugene R. Anderson, Jordan S. Stanzler, Lorelie S. Masters, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORTUITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fortuity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Return to the beginning
My first awakening to the fortuity materialized as we set off on our bicycles for an early summer morning ride. When we turned off King Street ... «Millstone News, Jul 15»
2
Epidemic: Heroin Use Skyrocketing In The U.S., CDC Says
Well, heroin users say that “shooting up” gives them the fortuity to escape from reality. Not to forget the rush feeling that users experience after ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
3
Breitbart Interview: How One 7/7 Bombing Survivor Rebuilt His Life
A sense of fortuity is one of Matthew's strongest feelings when recalling his experience of the bombings. When 52 people died Matthew still ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
4
#1StudentNWI: Making Student's Futures Shine at the Porter County …
In each of the four sessions, the students had the fortuity to try something that will actually be done in the program. Each student went home ... «ValpoLife.com, Jul 15»
5
Ted Cruz Is Right: The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits
The absence of term limits means that a president's ability to select justices is based on the fortuity of when vacancies occur. Jimmy Carter, for ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
6
Lindau 2015: a noble failure
Many have cited perseverance and tenacity as crucial tools in obtaining success in science, but all here at Lindau have stressed that the fortuity ... «Royal Society of Chemistry, Jul 15»
7
Empowering African Women through the Tech Revolution
The mobile technology revolution offers not only a wealth of social and economic opportunities, but new fortuity to empower female ... «Africa Outlook Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Distinguishing Between Captive Insurance And Related Party …
An insurance risk requires an element of fortuity or hazard, as opposed to a "risk of another nature, such as investment, or perhaps ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jun 15»
9
New empirical study of AAA arbitrations is a study in contradictions
... the appearance of a respondent company in an AAA arbitration is a wholly random event that depends on the fortuity of a claimant plaintiff ... «JD Supra, Jun 15»
10
Chicago Blackhawks struck by bad luck in Game 3 loss
In game three though, Chicago didn't come up lucky, and Tampa Bay's fortuity, along with their intensity and their aggressive forecheck, won ... «Along the Boards, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Fortuity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/fortuity>. Apr 2024 ».
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