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felicity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felicity \Fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Felicities. [OE. felicite, F. f['e]licit['e], fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy, fruitful; akin to fetus.]
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The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
Our own felicity we make or find.
--Johnson.Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity.
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That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
the felicities of her wonderful reign.
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A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. ``Felicity of expression.''
--Bp. Warburton.Syn: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "happiness; that which is a source of happiness," from Old French felicite "happiness" (14c.), from Latin felicitatem (nominative felicitas) "happiness, fertility," from felix (genitive felicis) "happy, fortunate, fruitful, fertile," from Latin root *fe-, equivalent of PIE *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle, produce, yield" (see fecund). Meaning "skillful adroitness, admirable propriety" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 happiness. 2 apt and pleasing style in writing, speech, etc. 3 Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt. 4 (cx semiotics semiology English) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity. eg. "The quotation was rendered with felicity."
WordNet
n. pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) [syn: felicitousness] [ant: infelicity]
state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy [syn: happiness] [ant: unhappiness]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 370
Land area (2000): 0.267183 sq. miles (0.692000 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.267183 sq. miles (0.692000 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26880
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 38.838689 N, 84.097305 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45120
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Wikipedia
Felicity is an American drama television series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves and produced by Touchstone Television and Imagine Television for The WB. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were executive producers through Imagine Entertainment.
The series revolves around the fictional college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter (portrayed by Keri Russell), as she attends the "University of New York" (based on New York University), across the country from her home in Palo Alto, California. The show ran for four seasons from September 29, 1998 and ended on May 22, 2002, with each season corresponding to the traditional American university divisions of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years.
In 2007, Felicity was one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time." AOL TV named Felicity one of the "Best School Shows of All Time." In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Felicity Porter one of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years".
Felicity may refer to:
Felicity is a 1978 Australian romantic drama and sexploitation or Ozploitation film starring Canadian actress Glory Annen and written and directed by John D. Lamond.
Felicity is the annual technical and cultural extravaganza of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H). It is usually held in February for three days at IIIT-H. Started in 2001, the students of the institute come together to create an event that is the expression of their creativity and technical prowess. Each year, event witnesses around 15000 participants from 90 countries all over the world.
Felicity is an English feminine given name meaning "happiness". It is derived from the Latin word felicitas meaning "luck, good fortune". It is also used as a form of the Latin name Felicitas, taken from the name of the Ancient Roman goddess Felicitas. It was also the name of Saint Felicity of Rome, a 2nd-century saint venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. Felicia, a related name, is a feminine form of the name Felix, which is derived from an Ancient Roman cognomen meaning "lucky, successful."
Felicity was the 236th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007. The name was the 706th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007, down from 619th place in 2006. The name was most popular in the United States in 1999, the year after the television show Felicity debuted. It was the 390th most popular name for girls in 1999, rising from 818th place in 1998, the year it debuted on the list of 1,000 most popular names for girls in the United States. Felicity Merriman is a red-headed Colonial doll produced by the American Girl company. The doll, which has a tie-in book series, movies, and a number of accessories, was introduced in the United States in 1991 and discontinued in 2011.
Usage examples of "felicity".
Above two hundred and fifty years after the death of Trajan, the senate, in pouring out the customary acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, wished that he might surpass the felicity of Augustus, and the virtue of Trajan.
According to Felicity, the ville of Amicus lay on the other side of the hills, through a narrow gorge running between them.
In any case if the man that has attained felicity meets some turn of fortune that he would not have chosen, there is not the slightest lessening of his happiness for that.
Memory either of formerly attained wisdom and virtue--in which case we have a better man and the argument from memory is given up--or memory of past pleasures, as if the man that has arrived at felicity must roam far and wide in search of gratifications and is not contented by the bliss actually within him.
In the analysis of a story like mine--so terribly romantic as it was--his imagination became a prime auxiliar, and with its aid, where a dull man would have paused for fact, with the felicity of truth, it supplied them, and he grew confident and strong in each hour of progression in his labor.
That of a man so supremely happy that I could scarcely realize my felicity!
A felicity which would thus last throughout life could be compared to a nosegay formed of a thousand flowers so beautifully, so skillfully blended together, that it would look one single flower.
Her logic was better than that of Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations, but she admitted that such lasting felicity could exist only between two beings who lived together, and loved each other with constant affection, healthy in mind and in body, enlightened, sufficiently rich, similar in tastes, in disposition, and in temperament.
During the last twenty-four hours we could boast of no other eloquence but that which finds expression in tears, in sobs, and in those hackneyed but energetic exclamations, which two happy lovers are sure to address to reason, when in its sternness it compels them to part from one another in the very height of their felicity.
I suffered because I could not imprint the most loving kiss upon the sweet lips which had just pronounced them, but at the same time it caused me the most delicious felicity to see that such an angel loved me.
We thought that our felicity was extreme, and we enjoyed it with the certainty that we could renew it at will.
These considerations naturally gave Villefort a feeling of such complete felicity that his mind was fairly dazzled in its contemplation.
I was so surprised, so amazed at having obtained a felicity of which I did not think myself worthy, that my departure must have appeared rather abrupt to her.
The only thought which threw a cloud over our felicity was that, the carnival being over, we did not know how to contrive our future meetings.
Term than That: all else he will attend to only as he might change his residence, not in expectation of any increase to his settled felicity, but simply in a reasonable attention to the differing conditions surrounding him as he lives here or there.