Zemblanity means somewhat the opposite of serendipity: "making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries occurring by design". A zemblanity is, effectively, an "unpleasant unsurprise".
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Serendipity means a lucky accident. the opposite is therefore bad luck.
Zemblanity, the opposite of Serendipity. Serendipity is the unexpected happening of something with pleasing outcome.
Zemblanity: (1) the occurrence of unhappy or unfortunate events by chance; (2) an unintended but unfortunate result of an action. Coined in 1998 by novelist William Boyd in his novel Armadillo, specifically as an antonym of serendipity.Interesting that the word serendipity itself was also coined by a novelist: Horace Walpole in his 1754 novel The Three Princes of Serendip