felicity

noun

1. 1

   The condition of being happy.

   Although he shows traces of the Romantic belief in the felicity of the savage, these are not numerous or important and there is no suggestion in his work that mankind could or should revert to a primitive life-style.

2. 2

   The condition of being happy. Intense happiness.

   Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.

   [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.

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

3. 3

   The condition of being happy. An instance of intense happiness.

4. 4

   An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.

5. 5

   rareGood luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.

6. 6

   Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.

   The quotation was rendered with felicity.

7. 7

   Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.

   […] 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.

   The season’s main attraction, the felicities of the sun, dimmed in the light of our competition and our growing friendliness.

8. 8

   Period (as opposed to lifetime) utility.

   In equation (19.24) U#95;C(#92;cdot) is the marginal felicity of consumption[.]

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plural

felicities