📚 Happenstance, noun. 🔉 /ˈhap(ə)nˌstans/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • mass noun): Coincidence. ❗️ Examples: 1. It was just happenstance that I happened to be there. 2. An untoward happenstance for Trudy. 3. Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. 4. It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be. 5. The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic