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infelicities

infelicities is the plural of infelicity.

Meaning of infelicity

Noun

infelicity (countable and uncountable, plural infelicities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous.
    • The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4
  2. (countable) Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
    • Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI

Questions about infelicities

What is infelicities the plural of?
Infelicities is the plural of infelicity.

Words near infelicities in the dictionary

  1. infefting
  2. infeftment
  3. infeftments
  4. infefts
  5. infelicific
  6. infelicities
  7. infelicitous
  8. infelicitously
  9. infelicitousness
  10. infelicity
  11. infell

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