different between felicity vs transcendence

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

transcend +? -ence

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æn(t)?s?nd?ns/

Noun

transcendence (countable and uncountable, plural transcendences)

1. (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
2. (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
3. (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
4. Superior excellence; supereminence.
   • A. V. G. Allen

     The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle.

Antonyms

• immanence

Related terms

• transcend
• transcendency
• transcendent
• transcendental
• transcendently

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