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felicities

felicities is the plural of felicity.

Meaning of felicity

Noun

felicity (countable and uncountable, plural felicities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being happy.
    • Although he shows traces of the Romantic belief in the felicity of the savage, these are not numerous or important and there is no suggestion in his work that mankind could or should revert to a primitive life-style.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
    1. (uncountable) Intense happiness.
      • Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.1513, Henry Bradshaw, edited by Edward Hawkins, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge: Very Frutefull for All Christen People to Rede (Remains Historical & Literary Connected with the Palatine...
    2. (countable) An instance of intense happiness.
  2. (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
  3. (rare, uncountable) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
  4. (uncountable) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
    • The quotation was rendered with felicity.

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Questions about felicities

What is felicities the plural of?
Felicities is the plural of felicity.

Words near felicities in the dictionary

  1. felicitating
  2. felicitation
  3. felicitations
  4. felicitator
  5. felicitators
  6. felicities
  7. felicitology
  8. felicitous
  9. felicitously
  10. felicitousness
  11. felicity

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