felicity
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7.7
- noun
- /fəˈlɪsɪti/
- Formal
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, with wondrous felicity and limitless eloquence, could translate or dictate eight languages while conversing on every subject.
- great felicity
Examples
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Our faces reflect an evident felicity.
Fiction book (1994) -
But ultimate repose cannot be found in this kind of felicity.
Academic text (2001) -
"But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude "what connubial felicity really was."
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From these examples, we can infer that in the play, religion claims to deliver both earthly felicity and eternal salvation.
Academic text (1996) -
In the Politics, Aristotle informs us that the best life is the life of "felicity" or happiness, and that felicity is that activity by which one does well.
Academic text (1994) -
Augustine's book closes abruptly on the felicity of his conversion; Nabokov's on the felicity of his design.
Academic text (1995) -
In the wood-paneled, ground-floor study, throughout all the seasons, I was able to enjoy what the Eastman House committee had called the "felicity" of my intellectual life at Oxford.
Academic text (1999) -
She smiled with pure felicity as she opened her birthday presents.
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The children played outside, their laughter echoing with felicity in the summer sun.
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After years of hard work, he finally achieved the felicity he had always dreamed of.
Synonyms
815
1.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
689
1.0
A feeling of pleasure and being satisfied
87
3.2
A complete feeling of great happiness and peace
37
1.0
A strong feeling of happiness and excitement
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5.2
A strong feeling of happiness and excitement during a celebration
10
1.0
A feeling of being happy and pleased
1
7.9
A feeling of very great happiness often after prayer or quiet thought
1
3.7
A feeling of complete happiness
1
2.0
A strong feeling of happiness and excitement
1
6.5
A strong feeling of great joy that people show openly
1
3.0
A strong feeling of great happiness
1
4.4
A feeling of complete happiness and calm
1
2.8
A very strong feeling of deep happiness
1
3.5
A strong feeling of happy excitement that makes you smile
1
8.9
A feeling of great happiness and pleasure
A strong feeling of great joy after success
A warm feeling of happiness and pleasure inside you
Antonyms
How Happy
Surface Forms
Morphology
felicity = felic + ity
The combining form 'felic-' is not a standalone English word and the meaning ('happiness') is inherited from Latin, so learners cannot transparently derive the sense from familiar English components.
Etymology
Felicity comes from the Latin word felix, which means 'happy' or 'fortunate' and is the same root as the name Felix. So felicity means great happiness or deep joy, the kind of warm contentment you feel in a very lucky moment.