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felicity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of felicity

1 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 of felicity

beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, gladness, happiness, joy, warm fuzzies
Words Related to felicity

elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high, intoxication

ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana, paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport

delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure

cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth

content, contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph
Near Antonyms of felicity

agony, anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, sufferance, woe, woefulness

blues, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolateness, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mournfulness, plaintiveness

Gehenna, hell, purgatory
Antonyms of felicity

calamity, ill-being, misery, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness

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

  • the elderly couple counted their grandchildren as their most cherished felicities
Synonyms of felicity

benediction, benefit, blessing, boon, godsend, good, manna, windfall
Words Related to felicity

grace, mercy

favor, kindness, mitzvah

advantage, aid, assistance, gift, help, relief, support

anodyne, comfort, consolation, solace

bonus, extra, lagniappe

delight, joy, pleasure
Near Antonyms of felicity

hex, hoodoo, jinx

bother, irritant, nuisance, pest

disadvantage

cross, misery, trial, tribulation
Antonyms of felicity

affliction, bane, curse, evil, plague, scourge

3 the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting

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

appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, happiness, properness, propriety, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness
Words Related to felicity

agreeableness, compatibility, congruity, harmoniousness

applicability, bearing, connection, justifiability, materiality, pertinence, relevance, relevancy, validity

acceptability, adequacy, adequateness, convenience, expedience, expediency, satisfactoriness, serviceableness, usefulness
Near Antonyms of felicity

disagreeableness, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inexpedience, inexpediency, inharmoniousness, unbecomingness

immateriality, inapplicability, irrelevance, irrelevancy

meaninglessness, pointlessness
Antonyms of felicity

improperness, impropriety, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, infelicity, unfitness, unseemliness, unsuitability, wrongness

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