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Definition of Happenstance
1. Noun. An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental.
Definition of Happenstance
1. Noun. A chance or random event or circumstance. ¹
2. Noun. The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Happenstance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Happenstance
Literary usage of Happenstance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strategic Education Research Partnership by Suzanne Donovan, Alexandra K. Wigdor, Catherine E. Snow (2003)
"... before a decision was made regarding which teachers would introduce the new
curriculum in which of their classes, so random assignment was happenstance. ..."
2. The Problem of Problems, and Its Various Solutions: Or, Atheism, Darwinism by Clark Braden (1877)
"Spencer gives a supposed case of an animal, that by some happenstance got an ...
He has to assume that such a happenstance was possible—that an animal could ..."
3. The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose by Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson (1992)
"The term itself may have been the product of happenstance, as was widely ...
But the disposition it expressed was no more the product of happenstance than ..."
4. A Personal Tao: Online by Casey Kochmer, Kenneth Kochmer (2005)
"This permits a flowing process of change from plan to plan or from plan to
happenstance, or happenstance to plan: life ..."
5. The Teacher and His Staff: Differentiating Teaching Roles: Report of the by Thomas Charles Bridges, H Hessell Tiltman, National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards (U.S.) (1909)
"Marriage partnerships and births should not be left to happenstance or accident
or shotgun. 10. Still another time-honored notion is that childhood and ..."
6. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"His knowledge of the constitution of minerals was extensive but largely happenstance,
and again he published nothing of it and showed no inclination even to ..."
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