Sust. FEM. Good luck, coincidentally, to offer such a substitute it, find valuable or pleasant things. Drift of the «serendipity» English, Serendip or Serendib ( from Arabic Sarandib ) former name of Ceylon ( today Sri Lanka ). It alludes to the possession of a gift to the heroes of the fairy tale of "The three princesses of Serendip". Example: the donkey who played the flute, the Fable "The donkey flautist», of the Spanish playwright Tomás Iriarte. Synonyms: anything, random chance, chiripa, coincidence, contingency situation, event, unforeseen, Peripeteia. Antonyms: apprehension, certainty, certainty, conjecture, hunch, belief, deduction, hypothesis, indication, induction, inference, foreboding prediction, presumption, forecast, prognosis, assumption, glimpse, viso.