What's the difference between felicity and infelicity?

Felicity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
  • (n.) That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
  • (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play the couple in The Theory of Everything.
  • (2) Since then Felicity has left her course and moved back to her parents, and is paying of the debt caused by the damage her ex caused, which he has never paid for.
  • (3) The prime minister has been urging all Australians to remain calm in the face of increased terrorism threats,” said the society’s reef campaign director, Felicity Wishart.
  • (4) Photograph: Felicity McCabe The drought is just one part of the climate puzzle in Somaliland.
  • (5) Crèche (six months to five years) €135 for five full days with lunch included, skipeak.net Felice Hardy is co-editor of ski information website welove2ski.com
  • (6) When officers arrived the man admitted what he had done and was released on bail on condition he didn't contact Felicity, didn't return to the property and paid for the damage.
  • (7) They either just sign the contract or walk away.” Under the guise of ‘flexibility’, Hermes is delivering a raw deal for its workers | Felicity Lawrence Read more Newman said he had seen similar clauses before, but not in the other technology companies under the spotlight.
  • (8) Felicity J Lord charges £165 per property "for tenancy agreement" and £65 per person "for reference checks", a £60 "admin fee" and £120 "check-in fee".
  • (9) Women’s vice-president Felicity Wilson is the NSW deputy executive director of the Property Council of Australia .
  • (10) Photograph: Irene Baque for the Guardian A leading international lawyer, Felicity Gerry QC, had hoped to halt the move with an emergency injunction and a judicial review, but that proved to be impossible for legal reasons.
  • (11) Gibraltarians have a history of reinventing themselves,” says Ian Felice, a partner with the local law firm Hassans.
  • (12) Photograph: Felicity McCabe for the Guardian What does she think of Theresa May ?
  • (13) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
  • (14) · Felicity Lawrence is the Guardian's consumer affairs correspondent and author of Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into the Food on Your Plate (Penguin)
  • (15) We never called for an ‘in danger’ listing as we want it protected and if it had been on the danger list it might have led to complacency,” said Felicity Wishart, reef campaign director for the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
  • (16) The first assistant secretary of the pharmaceutical benefits division, Felicity McNeil, the increase to the general co-payment meant some medicines would no longer be subsidised by the PBS and that was factored into the budget's forward estimates.
  • (17) Felicity Kendal's agent Dallas Smith was unable to reach his client, who was on holiday.
  • (18) It is therefore imperative that responsibility for nutrition be handed back to an independent agency, which is not affected by changes in government, ministers or political lobbying.” A regulator that serves the food industry rather than the consumer | Felicity Lawrence Read more A Conservative party spokesman said: “The UK now has the lowest salt intake of any developed country and our work on salt reduction is world-leading.
  • (19) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
  • (20) The presence of a zeta globin gene deletion [A. E. Felice et al., Hum.

Infelicity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
  • (n.) That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.

Example Sentences:

Words possibly related to "infelicity"