serendipitet

serendipitet
serendipìtēt m <G serendipitéta>
DEFINICIJA
umijeće da se slučajno dođe do zanimljivih i važnih otkrića
ETIMOLOGIJA
engl. serendipity ≃ Serendip: Sri Lanka; ime je skovao engleski književnik Horace Walpole (1717—1797) u bajci Tri princa od Serendipa

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  • Serendipity — is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British… …   Wikipedia

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