From Middle English felicite [and other forms], borrowed from Old French felicité (modern French félicité), from Latin fēlīcitātem, the accusative singular of fēlīcitās, from fēlix (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-) + -itās (a variant of -tās).

• (RP) IPA: /fɪˈlɪsɪti/
• (America) IPA: /fəˈlɪsəti/, [-ɾi]

felicity

1. (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.

   Antonyms: infelicity

   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC ↗, page 3 ↗:

     [T]he wiſe Man gave his Teſtimony to this, as the juſt Standard of true Felicity, when he prayed to have neither Poverty nor Riches.

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC ↗, page 2 ↗:

     […] Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.

2. (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
3. (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
4. (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.

   The quotation was rendered with felicity.

5. (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii ↗:

     […] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt,
     Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all,
     That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie,
     The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.

• felicific
• felicificability
• felicificative
• felicitate
• felicitation
• felicitator

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

From the noun felicity, and also the English form of , a name borne by early martyrs.

1. A female given name.

• Felix
• Flick
• Fliss

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