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noun

Felicity n. (pl. felicities)

The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. "Our own felicity we make or find." "Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity."

That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. "the felicities of her wonderful reign."

A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. "Felicity of expression."

Synonyms: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness.

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Etymology of 'Felicity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Felicity" Quotes from Famous Books

... each other for enjoyment. Heart calleth unto heart; and we draw our pleasures from the deep wells of living kindness, which lie in the quiet recesses of our bosoms; and which, when resorted to, furnish forth the pure element of domestic felicity. ...

— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving

... twelve books on the Trinity he compiled during his banishment in Phrygia, between the years 356 and 359, as is clear from his own express testimony, and that of St. Jerom. In the first book of this immortal monument of his admirable genius and piety, he beautifully shows that man's felicity is only to be found in God; and that the light of reason suffices to demonstrate this, which he illustrates by an account of his own conversion to the faith. After this he takes notice, that we can learn only by God's revelation, ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... shapes of beauty made the prospect divine concealed from him the barren reality which lay hidden below them. From this dizzy point he was dashed at once as he unawares congratulated himself on his felicity. Fifteen months after their marriage I was born, and my mother died a few ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... Smiles are as catching as tears; and periods men have termed happy, were periods when there existed some who knew of their happiness. Happiness rarely is absent; it is we that know not of its presence. The greatest felicity avails us nothing if we know not that we are happy; there is more joy in the smallest delight whereof we are conscious, than in the approach of the mightiest happiness that enters not into our soul. There are only too many who think ...

— Wisdom and Destiny • Maurice Maeterlinck

... the felicity of these anticipations, and contrasting this hour of ardent hope with others of whose dissatisfaction and gloom I was yet mindful, when a sudden shadow fell across the broad band of light issuing from the library window, and Sinclair ...

— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green

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