Synonyms of felicity

felicity

noun

fi-ˈli-sə-tē 

1

as in joy

a feeling or state of well-being and contentment

told his friends that marriage had brought him a felicity that he had never known before

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joy
• happiness
• bliss
• blissfulness
• beatitude
• enjoyment
• blessedness
• joyfulness
• pleasure
• gladness
• satisfaction
• ecstasy
• warm fuzzies
• delight
• exultation
• elation
• rapture
• intoxication
• cheerfulness
• euphoria
• glee
• mirth
• ravishment
• comfort
• exhilaration
• high
• joyousness
• nirvana
• gratification
• exuberance
• triumph
• transport
• glory
• delectation
• contentedness
• jollity
• jubilation
• seventh heaven
• elatedness
• paradise
• heaven
• gaiety
• lightheartedness
• rapturousness
• merriness
• content
• gleefulness
• jubilance
• gladsomeness
• jocundity
• cheer

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misery
• calamity
• unhappiness
• sadness
• wretchedness
• sorrow
• anguish
• agony
• woe
• sufferance
• melancholy
• desolation
• depression
• dejection
• gloom
• ill-being
• blues
• despondency
• gloominess
• joylessness
• hell
• woefulness
• mournfulness
• cheerlessness
• purgatory
• doldrums
• plaintiveness
• desolateness
• disheartenment
• downheartedness
• dispiritedness
• Gehenna

2

as in benefit

something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing

the elderly couple counted their grandchildren as their most cherished felicities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• benefit
• blessing
• boon
• gift
• relief
• bonus
• benediction
• windfall
• good
• grace
• manna
• consolation
• godsend
• assistance
• advantage
• mercy
• joy
• aid
• comfort
• kindness
• pleasure
• support
• delight
• solace
• help
• mitzvah
• favor
• anodyne
• extra
• lagniappe

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• evil
• plague
• affliction
• curse
• bane
• scourge
• nuisance
• pest
• hex
• irritant
• misery
• disadvantage
• bother
• trial
• cross
• jinx
• tribulation
• hoodoo

3

as in happiness

the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting

the telling felicity of the epigraphs that precede each chapter of the novel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• happiness
• fitness
• relevance
• usefulness
• appropriateness
• validity
• applicability
• relevancy
• aptness
• suitability
• rightness
• propriety
• suitableness
• seemliness
• properness
• appositeness
• fittingness
• felicitousness
• agreeableness
• convenience
• compatibility
• congruity
• acceptability
• harmoniousness
• pertinence
• justifiability
• adequacy
• expediency
• bearing
• connection
• serviceableness
• materiality
• expedience
• satisfactoriness
• adequateness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• infelicity
• unfitness
• impropriety
• wrongness
• unsuitability
• incompatibility
• inappropriateness
• incongruity
• disagreeableness
• inexpediency
• incongruence
• irrelevance
• unseemliness
• inaptness
• inapplicability
• irrelevancy
• immateriality
• improperness
• inappositeness
• meaninglessness
• incongruousness
• inexpedience
• inharmoniousness
• pointlessness
• unbecomingness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of felicity

What was the secret of American felicity and prosperity? — Literary Hub, 15 June 2026

But what State Bird’s dim sum cart offers me is felicity. — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2025

However, Juneteenth maintains a resolve to protect Black families, freedom, and felicity. — Danielle Broadway, Parents, 18 June 2025

With a band of this size there are felicities in the orchestration, not least in the elegant writing for woodwinds, but even those are smudged by a poor sound design that runs the gamut from loud to much louder. — David Benedict, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023