the quality or display of such expressions or style
5. philosophy
appropriateness (of a speech act). The performative I appoint you ambassador can only possess felicity if uttered by one in whom the authority for such appointments is vested
Word origin
C14: from Latin fēlīcitās happiness, from fēlix happy
Examples of 'felicities' in a sentence
felicities
Along the way there are many felicities.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Extra pounds also burdened the slow movement, for all the players' felicities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There are even likely to be felicities.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Felicities such as these dot every page.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Its overall shape eluded me; but its incidental felicities were engaging.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In such felicities, sport approaches art.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But there were no felicities of tone or phrasing, nor a special ache about the funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A few short quotations may illustrate, in a more particularized fashion, some of the poem's flaws and felicities.