Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages. Julius H. Comroe once described serendipity as:
to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer's daughter.
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【語源】イギリスの作家ホレス・ウォルポール（Horace Walpole）が1754年の書簡で使った造語。次々に予期せぬ発見をする"The Three Princes of Serendip"というペルシャの童話から作ったもの。
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