| 单词 | felicity |
| 释义 | felicity (once / 693 pages) 1n 2n Felicity is a state of happiness or the quality of joy. Sitting on the roof with a telescope and iced tea on a clear, starry night is one way to find perfect felicity — a happy place. Felicity comes from the Latin fēlīcitās, meaning "happiness." A synonym for felicity is "blissfulness." People, places, and things can have felicity: "His personality was so warm and full of felicity that we felt at ease the minute we met him." Or you can be in a state of felicity: "A full stomach, a fluffy couch, and the felicity of a Sunday-afternoon nap." WORD FAMILYfelicity: felicitate, felicities, felicitous, infelicity+/felicitate: felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation/felicitation: felicitations/felicitous: felicitously, felicitousness/infelicitous: infelicitously/infelicity: infelicities, infelicitous USAGE EXAMPLESInterview with Felicity Jones, heroine of 'Rogue One’ Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) Felicity Jones’s awful “I rebel” line is absent. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) He and the team at Lucasfilm settled on English actress Felicity Jones, 33, to play the part. Seattle Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1 n pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) 2Syn|Ant|Hyper felicitousness infelicity inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) appropriateness the quality of being specially suitable n state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper happiness unhappiness state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief beatification, beatitude, blessedness a state of supreme happiness radiancean attractive combination of good health and happiness enlightenment, nirvana(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness emotional state, spirit the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) |
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