Infelicity Definition

ĭnfĭ-lĭsĭ-tē
infelicities
noun
infelicities
The quality or condition of being infelicitous.
Webster's New World
Something infelicitous; unsuitable or inapt remark, action, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Infelicity

Noun

Singular:
infelicity
Plural:
infelicities

Origin of Infelicity

  • Middle English infelicite from Latin īnfēlīcitās from īnfēlīx īnfēlīc- unhappy in- not in–1 fēlīx happy dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Infelicity Sentence Examples

  • Finally, the amendments correct an infelicity in the drafting of the recital.

  • Despite the occasional stylistic infelicity and the overuse of the first person singular, Nettle writes well.

  • On his moral essays it may suffice to notice the dissertations On Nobility, On Vicissitudes of Fortune, On the Misery of Human Life, On the Infelicity of Princes and On Marriage in Old Age.

  • His first wife, Catherine, daughter of Magnus I., duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, bore him in 1 533 his eldest son Eric. This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

YTYITY

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Words Starting With I and Ending With Y

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