adventitiousness
- noun
- /ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs.nəs/
- Formal
- The adventitiousness of finding a four-leaf clover made her day unexpectedly special.
Examples
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We employ our technologies for trivia while surrendering the pleasures of adventitiousness: the weather, the day's snail mail, who might show up for coffee at your favorite greasy spoon, and what landline phone calls you'd happen to catch or miss.
Academic text (2012) -
When returning from infinity, staring out of the window, back to what Graham caused to be set on an octavo page, the adventitiousness of wildlife in a city garden might help in understanding a further move made in Graham's late poems, beyond objectified abstraction toward a communication that is at once intimate and strange, in a space suffused with an unaccountable love for creatures and things.
Academic text (2015) -
Their friendship showed an adventitiousness that surprised them both, as they had never planned to meet.
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The adventitiousness of his promotion was due to luck rather than hard work or preparation.
Synonyms
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5.8
A feeling of surprise when something happens that you did not know about
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8.6
A quality of things that happen by chance and are not planned
Antonyms
How Accidental
Surface Forms
Morphology
adventitiousness = adventitious (transparent) = adventitious + ness
A regular nominalization: the productive suffix '-ness' attaches to the adjective 'adventitious' to denote the quality or state.
Etymology
Adventitiousness comes from advent ('arrival') and the idea of something that 'comes in' from outside. So, adventitiousness means the quality of being added from outside or of happening by chance rather than being natural or planned.