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Providential vs Fortuitous - What's the difference?

providential | fortuitous |

As adjectives the difference between providential and fortuitous

is that providential is pertaining to divine providence while fortuitous is happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.

providential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to divine providence.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 88:
    • The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.
  • Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence; lucky.

    • Synonyms

    * fortunate, serendipitous

    Related terms

    * providence * providentially

    fortuitous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.
  • Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  • (legal) Happening independently of human will.

    • Derived terms

    * fortuitously * fortuitousness