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felicity
English
Etymology
From Middle English felicite (“bliss, happiness, joy; delight, pleasure; a source of happiness; good fortune; prosperity; well-being; of a planet: in an influential position”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French felicité (modern French félicité (“bliss, happiness; felicity”)), from Latin f?l?cit?tem, the accusative singular of f?l?cit?s (“fertility, fruitfulness; happiness, felicity; good fortune; success”), from f?lix (“happy; blessed, fortunate, lucky; fertile, fruitful; prosperous; auspicious, favourable”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”)) + -it?s (a variant of -t?s (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??l?s?ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??l?s?ti/, [-?i]
- Rhymes: -?s?ti
- Hyphenation: fe?li?ci?ty
Noun
felicity (countable and uncountable, plural felicities)
- (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
- Antonym: infelicity
- (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
- (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
- (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
- (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
Derived terms
- felicitous
- felicitously
- infelicity
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- felicity (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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blessedness
English
Etymology
From Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?s?dn?s/
Noun
blessedness (countable and uncountable, plural blessednesses)
- The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
Translations
Anagrams
- bedlessness
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