Felicity
[fɪ'lɪsɪtɪ] or [fə'lɪsəti]
Definition
(noun.) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression).
Checked by Edwin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
(n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
(n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bliss, blissfulness, blessedness, happiness.[2]. Aptness, aptitude, propriety, appropriateness.[3]. Success, good luck, good fortune.
Checked by Gerald
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FELICITOUS]
Checker: Wilmer
Definition
n. happiness: delight: a blessing: a happy event.—v.t. Felic′itāte to express joy or pleasure to: to congratulate.—n. Felicitā′tion the act of congratulating.—adj. Felic′itous happy: prosperous: delightful: appropriate.—adv. Felic′itously.
Checker: Olivier
Examples
- Let me share its felicity sometimes, and what do I sacrifice? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could weep in the exquisite felicity of my heart and be as happy in my weakness as ever I had been in my strength. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Allow me to have the felicity of hanging up your nightcap, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What years of felicity that man, in all human calculation, has before him! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Now, Mr. Cruncher, said Miss Pross, whose eyes were red with felicity; if you are ready, I am. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Is there a felicity in the world, said Marianne, superior to this? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare felicity. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Not that Emma was gay and thoughtless from any real felicity; it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- By this time, we were quite settled down in Buckingham Street, where Mr. Dick continued his copying in a state of absolute felicity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nor was the occasional society of Mr. Pott himself wanting to complete their felicity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He only seemed to contrast his present cheerfulness and felicity with the dire endurance that was over. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Perdita's name was for ever joined with his; their conjugal felicity was celebrated even by the authentic testimony of facts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To see the expression of her eyes, the change of her complexion, the progress of her feelings, their doubt, confusion, and felicity, was enough. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- So often as she had heard them wish for a ball at home as the greatest of all felicities! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Marion