felicitation

1. 1.

   (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another

   “I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage”

   Synonymscongratulation

   Broaderexpression

   plural

2. 2.

   the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration

   Synonymscongratulation

   Broaderspeech act

Other forms of felicitation

plural

felicitations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about felicitation

What does felicitation mean?

felicitation means "(usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in felicitation?

felicitation has 6 syllables: fe-li-ci-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for felicitation?

Close synonyms include congratulation, congratulation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is felicitation a common word?

felicitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.