felicitousness

1. 1.

   pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

   Synonymsfelicity

   Broaderappropriateness

Other forms of felicitousness

plural

felicitousnesses·

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 felicitousness

What does felicitousness mean?

felicitousness means "pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)".

How many syllables are in felicitousness?

felicitousness has 5 syllables: fe-li-ci-tou-sness. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for felicitousness?

Close synonyms include felicity. 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 felicitousness a common word?

felicitousness 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.