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confelicity

confelicity noun: pleasure in another person's happiness.

Noun

confelicity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Pleasure in another person's happiness.
    • "It is the first time, is it not? Well, it is my earnest hope that this repast augurs the foundation of a mutual confelicity between us."2002, Edward Cline, Sparrowhawk, Book Two: Hugh Kenick, MacAdam/Cage, →ISBN, page 191
    • This capacity of demonstrating confelicity which is experiencing joy in seeing the happiness and success of others can be seen as an important characteristic of youth mentoring relationships.2020, Òscar Prieto-Flores, Jordi Feu, editors, Mentoring Children and Young People for Social Inclusion, Routledge, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    schadenfreude

Antonyms of confelicity

Origin of confelicity

Learned borrowing from Latin con- (“with”) + fēlīcitās (“happiness”)

Questions about confelicity

What does confelicity mean?
Confelicity means pleasure in another person's happiness.
What part of speech is confelicity?
Confelicity is a noun.

Words near confelicity in the dictionary

  1. confederator
  2. confederators
  3. confedered
  4. confedering
  5. confeders
  6. confelicity
  7. confen
  8. confer
  9. conferable
  10. conferee
  11. conferees

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