Perhaps vs Happenstance - What's the difference?
perhaps | happenstance |
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* "...will live until he dies perhaps , and then lie down in clover." --Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (song)
(countable) A chance or random event or circumstance.
(uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.
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As an adverb perhaps
is Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty.As a noun happenstance is
a chance or random event or circumstance.perhaps
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Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* belike * maybe * mayhap * peradventure * perchancehappenstance
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Noun
(en noun)- by happenstance
- James Bond: Once is happenstance , twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.