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Definition of felicity in English: felicitynounPlural felicities fɪˈlɪsɪtifəˈlɪsədi mass noun1Intense happiness. Example sentencesExamples - For such a person, felicity after death could be higher than felicity before death.
- We suspect felicity is not likely to accompany a sense of entitlement, which arises from a sullen sense that not only are things not improving but that that is because we have no control - the world does not appreciate our true worth.
- In this respect they work as much in favor of happiness in this world as of felicity in the next.
- I was not certain this would lead to continued domestic felicity.
- Reveries of former felicity are interrupted by the sight of a valiant little vessel ploughing towards us through choppy seas.
- All we have to do is speak our preferences plainly and a whole new world of mutual felicity should arise.
- What he's talking about - as always - is how to lead a good and therefore happy life; he loved productivity and valued felicity.
- But felicity is, in the end, something to be sought.
- That joy… that felicity, he was always grinning, always wearing that dumb smirk on his face.
Synonyms happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, rapture, bliss, euphoria, delight, cheer, cheerfulness, gaiety contentedness, satisfaction, pleasure, fulfilment transports 2The ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts. he exposed the kernel of the matter with his customary elegance and felicity Example sentencesExamples - Evaluation of the work's historical quality addresses the comprehensiveness of the research, the development of the argument, and the felicity of the expression.
- Her vibrant stage presence, excellent command over rhythm and felicity of expression held the audience spellbound.
- The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression.
- But he is additionally revered for combining his extraordinary climbing ability with a felicity for writing.
- English humour is subtle and effective while the felicity of expression is lost in the American humour.
- An original thinker always alertly attuned to contemporary culture, he was admired for his intellectual style and the felicity with which he expressed his ideas in his many books and articles.
- In India, where he is read for the felicity of his language, sales of his novels are very much in demand among the younger generation.
- Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
- With her fund of experience and felicity of expression, her courage and uncompromising values, what a wonderful writer she could have become!
- His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible.
- He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
- I do not usually interrupt questions, but I do like felicity of expression, which that clearly was not.
- His special felicity was in the depiction of moonlight, mist-gleam and rainshine, often in combination, on parkland, ship-rigged harbours and lamp-lit city streets.
Synonyms eloquence, aptness, appropriateness, appropriacy, suitability, suitableness, applicability, fitness, relevance, pertinence, correctness, rightness - 2.1count noun A particularly effective feature of a work of literature or art.
a book full of minor felicities Example sentencesExamples - When I was a kid you'd get amazingly faithful BBC adaptations of classic books - eight or twelve one-hour episodes to build a minor Victorian novel, recreating all its felicities.
- Every page of the book is studded with similar felicities but it would be wrong, says Carey, for him to take all the credit.
- It has been admired for ‘its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of expression the music of its cadences, and the felicities of its rhythm’.
- Thriving on the pressure of incessant deadlines, he could always be counted on to produce essays and exhibition reviews that shimmer with verbal felicities enough to make them worth reading for their own, literary sake.
- I have wondered, for instance, whether it is more a sense of brushstroke rather than verbal felicity that makes for some of the most arresting imagery in the lyric poems of David Campbell or the meditative poems of Robert Gray.
- Innocent jokes depend upon verbal felicities, puns, play upon words, combining incongruous words, and so on.
- As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French felicite, from Latin felicitas, from felix, felic- 'happy'. Definition of felicity in US English: felicitynounfəˈlisədēfəˈlɪsədi 1Intense happiness. Example sentencesExamples - In this respect they work as much in favor of happiness in this world as of felicity in the next.
- What he's talking about - as always - is how to lead a good and therefore happy life; he loved productivity and valued felicity.
- I was not certain this would lead to continued domestic felicity.
- All we have to do is speak our preferences plainly and a whole new world of mutual felicity should arise.
- For such a person, felicity after death could be higher than felicity before death.
- We suspect felicity is not likely to accompany a sense of entitlement, which arises from a sullen sense that not only are things not improving but that that is because we have no control - the world does not appreciate our true worth.
- That joy… that felicity, he was always grinning, always wearing that dumb smirk on his face.
- Reveries of former felicity are interrupted by the sight of a valiant little vessel ploughing towards us through choppy seas.
- But felicity is, in the end, something to be sought.
Synonyms happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, rapture, bliss, euphoria, delight, cheer, cheerfulness, gaiety 2The ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts. speech that pleased by its accuracy, felicity, and fluency Example sentencesExamples - An original thinker always alertly attuned to contemporary culture, he was admired for his intellectual style and the felicity with which he expressed his ideas in his many books and articles.
- He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
- With her fund of experience and felicity of expression, her courage and uncompromising values, what a wonderful writer she could have become!
- The translations I offer aim to transcribe the phrasing of the French as exactly as possible, often at the expense of English idiom or felicity of expression.
- I do not usually interrupt questions, but I do like felicity of expression, which that clearly was not.
- Evaluation of the work's historical quality addresses the comprehensiveness of the research, the development of the argument, and the felicity of the expression.
- His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible.
- But he is additionally revered for combining his extraordinary climbing ability with a felicity for writing.
- Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
- Her vibrant stage presence, excellent command over rhythm and felicity of expression held the audience spellbound.
- His special felicity was in the depiction of moonlight, mist-gleam and rainshine, often in combination, on parkland, ship-rigged harbours and lamp-lit city streets.
- English humour is subtle and effective while the felicity of expression is lost in the American humour.
- In India, where he is read for the felicity of his language, sales of his novels are very much in demand among the younger generation.
Synonyms eloquence, aptness, appropriateness, appropriacy, suitability, suitableness, applicability, fitness, relevance, pertinence, correctness, rightness - 2.1 A particularly effective feature of a work of literature or art.
the King James version, thanks to its felicities of language, ruled supreme Example sentencesExamples - Every page of the book is studded with similar felicities but it would be wrong, says Carey, for him to take all the credit.
- Thriving on the pressure of incessant deadlines, he could always be counted on to produce essays and exhibition reviews that shimmer with verbal felicities enough to make them worth reading for their own, literary sake.
- Innocent jokes depend upon verbal felicities, puns, play upon words, combining incongruous words, and so on.
- When I was a kid you'd get amazingly faithful BBC adaptations of classic books - eight or twelve one-hour episodes to build a minor Victorian novel, recreating all its felicities.
- It has been admired for ‘its simplicity, its dignity, its power, its happy turns of expression the music of its cadences, and the felicities of its rhythm’.
- I have wondered, for instance, whether it is more a sense of brushstroke rather than verbal felicity that makes for some of the most arresting imagery in the lyric poems of David Campbell or the meditative poems of Robert Gray.
- As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French felicite, from Latin felicitas, from felix, felic- ‘happy’. |