The phrase
"mere happenstance" means something that has occurred by chance or luck, without any intention or planning.
Full definition
letting the play press the right button combination
by mere happenstance to get a tip... Do you even understand tutorials at all?
When personal suffering is involved, and especially when a person dies, we need to feel that there is a purpose for this, that there is «more» of a reason than
just mere happenstance or bad luck.
What strikes us
as mere happenstance or coincidence is, in fact, an aspect of divine providence that we don't yet understand.
As the story unfolds, Molly and CJ find themselves reunited
by mere happenstance and later learn their lives are inextricably woven together by true fate.
That's more than
mere happenstance; that's a divine act.
It's
mere happenstance that a chance meeting with an older man gives her the opportunity to be an important part of someone else's life, but of course there are various challenges.
But it's far too coincidental to be
mere happenstance.