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Felicity
| Felicity Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Felicity?
[n] pleasing and appropriate manner or style esp of expression
[n] state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Felicity: felicitousness |
happiness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Felicity: admissibility |
affluence |
an ear for |
an eye for |
applicability |
appositeness |
appropriateness |
aptitude |
aptness |
articulateness |
Atticism |
beatification |
beatitude |
becomingness |
bed of roses |
bent |
bewitchment |
blessedness |
blessing |
bliss |
blissfulness |
capacity for |
chasteness |
chastity |
cheer |
cheerfulness |
civility |
clarity |
classicalism |
classicism |
clearness |
cloud nine |
clover |
comeliness |
comfort |
command of language |
command of words |
correctness |
decency |
decorousness |
decorum |
delectation |
delight |
dignity |
directness |
discrimination |
distinction |
ease |
easy circumstances |
Easy Street |
ecstasy |
ecstatics |
effective style |
elation |
elegance |
elegancy |
eloquence |
eloquent tongue |
enchantment |
exaltation |
exhilaration |
expression |
expressiveness |
exuberance |
facundity |
felicitousness |
finish |
fitness |
fittedness |
fittingness |
flair |
fleshpots |
flow |
flowing periods |
fluency |
fortunateness |
fortune |
gaiety |
genius for |
genteelness |
gentility |
gift for |
gift of expression |
gift of gab |
gladness |
glee |
glibness |
good fortune |
good luck |
good taste |
grace |
gracefulness |
gracility |
gracious life |
gracious living |
graphicness |
happiness |
happy fortune |
heaven |
high spirits |
inclination |
innate aptitude |
intoxication |
joy |
joyance |
joyfulness |
lap of luxury |
leaning |
life of ease |
limpidity |
loaves and fishes |
lucidity |
luck |
luckiness |
luxury |
meaningfulness |
meetness |
naturalness |
neatness |
oratory |
overhappiness |
overjoyfulness |
paradise |
pellucidity |
perspicuity |
plainness |
polish |
propensity |
properness |
propriety |
prosperity |
prosperousness |
purity |
qualification |
rapture |
ravishment |
refinement |
relevance |
restraint |
rhetoric |
rightness |
security |
seemliness |
seventh heaven |
silver tongue |
simplicity |
slickness |
smiles of fortune |
smoothness |
straightforwardness |
success |
suitability |
sunshine |
taste |
tastefulness |
tendency |
terseness |
the affluent life |
the breaks |
the good life |
thriving condition |
transport |
turn |
turn for |
unaffectedness |
unalloyed happiness |
upward mobility |
urbanity |
velvet |
vividness |
weal |
wealth |
welfare |
well-being
See Also | appropriateness |
beatification |
beatitude |
blessedness |
emotional state |
radiance |
spirit
Felicity In Webster's Dictionary
\Fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Felicities}. [OE. felicite, F.
f['e]licit['e], fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy,
fruitful; akin to fetus.]
1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness;
enjoyment of good.
Our own felicity we make or find. --Johnson.
Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy
and felicity. --Book of
Common Prayer.
2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying
event; prosperity; blessing.
the felicities of her wonderful reign. --Atterbury.
3. A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in
painting portraits, or in writing or talking. ``Felicity
of expression.'' --Bp. Warburton.
Syn: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness.
See {Happiness}.
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