Origin of Invented Words Serendipity

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About the history, origins, and definitions of the invented word serendipity.

ORIGINS OF INVENTED WORDS

Serendipity - The faculty for making desirable discoveries by accident. English novelist Horace Walpole (1717-1797) so named a faculty possessed by the three heroes of his story The Three Princes of Serendip.


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