felicity

Plural: felicities

Noun

• Intense happiness; the quality of being well-expressed.
• pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
• state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
• Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
• An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
• Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
• Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
• Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
• Period (as opposed to lifetime) utility.

Examples

• The felicity of her winning bingo brought a radiant smile to her face.
• The quotation was rendered with felicity.

Synonyms

felicitousness, happiness, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentedness, contentness, delight, delightedness, elatedness, elation, exuberance, exuberantness, felicity, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, gaiety, gayfulness, gayness, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, gleesomeness, good fortune, good luck, high spirits, hilarity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, jovialness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, liss, luck, luck of the Irish, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, pleasedness

Antonyms

infelicity, unhappiness

Related Words

felicific, felicificability, felicificative, felicitate, felicitation, felicitator