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accidentalness

noun as in fortuitousness

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The quality of being accidental; accidentalness.

All these people drift in with an all too manifestly simulated accidentalness that at last arouses the distrust of the elderly  custodian, so that Mr. Orage, the gifted editor of the New Age, arriving last, is refused admission.

I began to tell of the fermentation and new beginnings that were everywhere perceptible throughout the East, of the vast masses of human ability and energy that were coming into action in China and India, of the unlimited future of both North and South America, of the mere accidentalness of the European advantage.

By what accidental or fortuitous happening the atoms have dropped out of their scientific categories, and the molecules have been advanced to their commanding place in absolute accidentalness, is one of those unassignable causes in which they apparently so much delight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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