1300-1400Old Frenchfelicité, from Latinfelix ‘happy’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
He demonstrated a concern for the felicity of his children.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
In these works Traherne expresses his vision of the felicity for which mankind was created.
It is a book full of minor felicities.
She made you feel that you were an expected felicity to her.
The aim was to surround lithe John with domestic objects and so turn his mind to conjugal felicity.
This must be a human felicity as high as any that is possible.
With this felicity of thinking, they easily bridged the physical and social sciences, from biology to psychology to sociology.
1[uncountable] happiness: domestic felicity2[uncountable] the quality of being well-chosen or suitable: a felicity of language3felicities [plural] British English formal suitable or well-chosen remarks or details