kismet

plural kismets · alternative kismat · alternative Kismet

1. uncountableusuallyFate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.

   Sexualised Catholicism, at the dawn of MTV, was Madonna’s first stroke of kismet.

   2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian

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   But these things are kismet, and we only find out all about them just when any knowledge is too late.

   1887, Rudyard Kipling, Bitters Neat

   "Golly!" he cried. "I'm awfully sorry, Bo'sun, but you're It. You're luck's clean out to-day. What rotten Kismet you do have. The Lot fell on you all right, smack in the middle of your chest."

   1917, Percival Christopher Wren, “The Rafters”, in The Young Stagers

   But at this point fickle Kismet, who for a day had played with him bitterly and sardonically, decided to reward him in full for the amusement he had afforded her. Kismet turned the tawny eyes of the snake-charmer to the camel. Kismet led her to lean toward the man beside her and say, "Who's that? That camel?"

   1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Camel's Back

   Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, chance, destin, destiny, doom

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