felicity

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfelicitousness

   Antonymsinfelicity

   Broaderappropriateness
2. 2.

   state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

   Synonymshappiness

   Broaderemotional state

   Narrowerblessednessradiance

Other forms of felicity

plural

felicities·

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 felicity

What does felicity mean?

felicity means "pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in felicity?

felicity has 4 syllables: fe-lic-i-ty. The stress falls on "lic". In IPA it is /fɪˈlɪsəti/.

What is another word for felicity?

Close synonyms include felicitousness, happiness. 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.

What is the opposite of felicity?

The recorded antonyms are infelicity.

Is felicity a common word?

felicity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.