different between felicity vs capriciousness

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)

1. (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.

   Antonym: infelicity
2. (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
3. (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
4. (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.

5. (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.

Derived terms

• felicitous
• felicitously
• infelicity

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References

Further reading

• felicity (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

capricious +? -ness

Noun

capriciousness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being capricious.
   • 1827 Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill - Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice

     To employ always the same witnesses, he would excite speculation, and expose himself to the imputation of fickleness or capriciousness.