Fortune vs. Prosperity — What's the Difference?

The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck

Prosperity is the flourishing, thriving, good fortune and successful social status. Prosperity often produces profuse wealth including other factors which can be profusely wealthy in all degrees, such as happiness and health.

Fortunes The turns of luck in the course of one's life.

The condition of being prosperous.

Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck

The condition of being prosperous, of having good fortune

A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth

The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.

Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.

An economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment

A large sum of money

The condition of prospering; having good fortune

Often Fortune A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one's life

Fate; destiny

A foretelling of one's destiny.

(Archaic) To endow with wealth.

(Obsolete) To ascribe or give good or bad fortune to.

To occur by chance; happen.

Destiny, especially favorable.

A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.

A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

Good luck.

One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.

A large amount of money.

(transitive)

To provide (someone) with a fortune.

To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.

To happen, to take place.

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.

That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.

That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.

Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

To provide with a fortune.

To presage; to tell the fortune of.

To fall out; to happen.

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

A large amount of wealth or prosperity

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);