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title: "Serendipity"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:17:51.844802+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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== Related terms ==
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Several uncommonly used terms have been derived from the concept and name of serendipity.
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William Boyd coined the term zemblanity in the late twentieth century to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: "making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries occurring by design". The derivation is speculative, but believed to be from Nova Zembla, a barren archipelago once the site of Russian nuclear testing.
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Bahramdipity is derived directly from Bahram Gur as characterized in The Three Princes of Serendip. It describes the suppression of serendipitous discoveries or research results by powerful individuals.
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In addition, Solomon & Bronstein (2018) further distinguish between perceptual and realised pseudo-serendipity and nemorinity.
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== See also ==
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Browse
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Coincidence
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Felix culpa
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Insight
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Lateral thinking
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Multiple discovery
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Role of chance in scientific discoveries
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Serendipaceratops
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Serendipity Sapphire
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Side effect
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Synchronicity
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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Merton, Robert K.; Barber, Elinor (2004). The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691117546. (Manuscript written 1958).
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Hannan, Patrick J. (2006). Serendipity, Luck and Wisdom in Research. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0595365517.
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Roberts, Royston M. (1989). Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. Wiley. ISBN 978-0471602033.
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Isabelle Rivoal and Noel B. Salazar (2013). Contemporary ethnographic practice and the value of serendipity, Social Anthropology, 21(2): 178–85.
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== External links ==
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ACM Paper on Creating serendipitous encounters in a geographically distributed community.
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The Serendipity Equations
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Serendipity of Science – a BBC Radio 4 series by Simon Singh
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Video: Are Scientific Discoveries Merely Lucky Shots?, Samantha Copeland, Delft University of Technology |