• IPA: /fəˈlɪsɪti/

felicity

1. (uncountable) Happiness.

   Antonyms: infelicity

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 2 ↗:

     {...}} Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.

   • 1862, George Long (scholar), translation of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V:

     For two reasons then it is right to be content with that which happens to thee; the one, because it was done for thee and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference to thee, originally from the most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the other, because even that which comes severally to every man is to the power which administers the universe a cause of felicity and perfection, nay even of its very continuance.

2. (uncountable) An apt and pleasing#Adjective|pleasing style#Noun|style in speech, writing#Noun|writing, etc.
3. (uncountable, semiotics, semiology) Reproduction of a sign#Noun|sign with fidelity.

   The quotation was rendered with felicity.

4. (countable) Something that is either a source#Noun|source of happiness or particularly apt.

• French: félicité
• Italian: felicità
• Portuguese: felicidade
• Spanish: felicidad

1. A female given name.
   • 2010 Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-340-98062-0, page 130:

     Fliss had them. Felicity Benson, Happiness Benson. Except she's not very happy at the moment, not with me.

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• French: Félicité
• German: Felizitas, Felicitas
• Italian: Felicita
• Spanish: Felicidad