[syn: happiness, felicity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Felicity \Fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Felicities. [OE. felicite, F.
f['e]licit['e], fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy,
fruitful; akin to fetus.]
1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness;
enjoyment of good.
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Our own felicity we make or find. --Johnson.
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Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy
and felicity. --Book of
Common Prayer.
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2. That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying
event; prosperity; blessing.
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the felicities of her wonderful reign. --Atterbury.
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3. A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in
painting portraits, or in writing or talking. "Felicity of
expression." --Bp. Warburton.
Syn: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness.
See Happiness.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
felicity
n 1: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner
or style of expression) [syn: felicity, felicitousness]
[ant: infelicity]
2: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy [syn: happiness, felicity]
[ant: unhappiness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "felicity":
Atticism, Easy Street, admissibility, affluence, an ear for,
an eye for, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude,
aptness, articulateness, beatification, beatitude, becomingness,
bed of roses, bent, bewitchment, blessedness, blessing, bliss,
blissfulness, capacity for, chasteness, chastity, cheer,
cheerfulness, civility, clarity, classicalism, classicism,
clearness, cloud nine, clover, comeliness, comfort,
command of language, command of words, correctness, decency,
decorousness, decorum, delectation, delight, dignity, directness,
discrimination, distinction, ease, easy circumstances, ecstasy,
ecstatics, effective style, elation, elegance, elegancy, eloquence,
eloquent tongue, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, expression,
expressiveness, exuberance, facundity, felicitousness, finish,
fitness, fittedness, fittingness, flair, fleshpots, flow,
flowing periods, fluency, fortunateness, fortune, gaiety,
genius for, genteelness, gentility, gift for, gift of expression,
gift of gab, gladness, glee, glibness, good fortune, good luck,
good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, gracious life,
gracious living, graphicness, happiness, happy fortune, heaven,
high spirits, inclination, innate aptitude, intoxication, joy,
joyance, joyfulness, lap of luxury, leaning, life of ease,
limpidity, loaves and fishes, lucidity, luck, luckiness, luxury,
meaningfulness, meetness, naturalness, neatness, oratory,
overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, pellucidity, perspicuity,
plainness, polish, propensity, properness, propriety, prosperity,
prosperousness, purity, qualification, rapture, ravishment,
refinement, relevance, restraint, rhetoric, rightness, security,
seemliness, seventh heaven, silver tongue, simplicity, slickness,
smiles of fortune, smoothness, straightforwardness, success,
suitability, sunshine, taste, tastefulness, tendency, terseness,
the affluent life, the breaks, the good life, thriving condition,
transport, turn, turn for, unaffectedness, unalloyed happiness,
upward mobility, urbanity, velvet, vividness, weal, wealth,
welfare, well-being
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Felicity, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 922
Housing Units (2000): 370
Land area (2000): 0.267183 sq. miles (0.692000 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.267183 sq. miles (0.692000 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26880
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.838689 N, 84.097305 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45120
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Felicity, OH
Felicity