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Felicity is defined as a state of feeling great happiness, or the ability to appropriately express your emotions or thoughts.

(noun)

An example of felicity is a state of great happiness.
An example of felicity is when your thoughts are expressed appropriately and elegantly.

See felicity in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. felicities

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

Origin: ME felicite < OFr felicité < L felicitas, happiness < felix (gen. felicis), happy, orig., fertile, fruitful, nourishing: for IE base see female

See felicity in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. fe·lic·i·ties

a. Great happiness; bliss.
b. An instance of great happiness.
A cause or source of happiness.
a. An appropriate and pleasing manner or style: felicity of expression.
b. An instance of appropriate and pleasing manner or style.
Archaic Good fortune.

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Origin: Middle English felicite

Origin: , from Old French felicite

Origin: , from Latin fēlīcitās

Origin: , from fēlīx, fēlīc-, fortunate; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots

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