felicity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fe=lic=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

felicity, n. [OE. felicite, F. félicité, fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy, fruitful; akin to fetus.].

•  The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.  [1913 Webster]

  "Our own felicity we make or find."  [1913 Webster]

  "Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.  [1913 Webster]

  "the felicities of her wonderful reign."  [1913 Webster]
•  A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking.  Bp. Warburton.

Syn. -- Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

felicity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 intense happiness; being happy.
2 a cause of happiness.
3 a a capacity for apt expression; appropriateness. b an appropriate or well-chosen phrase.
4 a fortunate trait.

Etymology

ME f. OF felicit{eacute} f. L felicitas -tatis f. felix -icis happy

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

felicity

Skill

N skill, skillfulness, address, dexterity, dexterousness, adroitness, expertness, proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight, mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, sleight of hand, seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship, rope-dancing, accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, art, science, technicality, technology, practical knowledge, technical knowledge, knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire, tact, mother wit, discretion, finesse, craftiness, management, self-help, cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius, intelligence, sharpness, readiness, invention, aptness, aptitude, turn for, capacity for, genius for, felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation, proficient, masterpiece, coup de maitre, chef d'euvre, tour de force, good stroke, skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain, slick, smart, proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished, conversant, experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed, up in, well up in, in practice, in proper cue, competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished, clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed, inventive, shrewd, sharp, on the ball, cunning, alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff, discreet, neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure- footed, cut out for, fitted for, technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian, shipshape, workman- like, business-like, statesman-like, skillfully, well, artistically, with skill, with consummate skill, secundum artem, suo Marte, to the best of one's abilities, ars celare artem, artes honorabit, celui qui veut celui-la peut, c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher son, expertus metuit, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein C, heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute, if you have lemons, make lemonade.

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.