infelicity

1. 1.

   inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

   Antonymsfelicity

   Broaderinappropriateness

Other forms of infelicity

plural

infelicities·

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 infelicity

What does infelicity mean?

infelicity means "inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)".

How many syllables are in infelicity?

infelicity has 5 syllables: in-fe-li-ci-ty. The stress falls on "li".

What is the opposite of infelicity?

The recorded antonyms are felicity.

Is infelicity a common word?

infelicity 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.