felicity 
fe·lic·ity (fə lis′i tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- happiness; bliss
- anything producing happiness; good fortune
- a quality or knack of appropriate and pleasing expression in writing, speaking, painting, etc.
- an apt expression or thought
Etymology: ME felicite < OFr felicité < L felicitas, happiness < felix (gen. felicis), happy, orig., fertile, fruitful, nourishing: for IE base see female
Preposition: of
- expression: In places the writing may lack clarity and felicity of expression.
- style: THERE is one felicity of style which is peculiarly Scott's own; the very happy names which he gives his dramatis personae.
Converse of object
- have: You honor me too much in ascribing to me a degree of intimacy with Miss Fanshawe I have not the felicity to enjoy.
- enjoy: You live in happy times, and enjoy a singular felicity.
- attain: Indeed without these vital ties it would be wholly impossible for the world of humanity to attain true felicity and success.
- imagine: The imagined felicity vanished, and he begged Dionysius to remove him from his seat of peril.
Adjective modifier
- supreme: But the greatest bliss is the good pleasure of God: that is the supreme felicity.
- eternal: Some seek their rest and happiness on earth, others eternal felicity in heaven.
- domestic: She would have found her mental superiority very much in the way of domestic felicity.
- great: The greater part of the Church has passed into a realm of greater felicity.
- verbal: A man does not hear, as in the smart novels, these gems of verbal felicity dropped between diplomatists at dinner.
- such: She had all the qualities to make a man a good wife, if it had been my fate to experience such felicity.
Modifies a noun
- condition: The conditions that make speech acts real are called felicity conditions.
Preposition: in
- heaven: Some seek their rest and happiness on earth, others eternal felicity in heaven.
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicityand long continuance together the rarest thing of all.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Certainly there is no happiness within this circle of flesh, nor is it in the optics of these eyes to behold felicity; the first day of our Jubilee is death.
Browse dictionary entries near felicity
- ‹ felicitous
- ‹ felicitation
- ‹ felicitate
- ‹ felicific
- ‹ Felicia
- ‹ Feldstein, Martin S.
- ‹ feldspar
- ‹ feldsher
- ‹ felafel
- ‹ feisty
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