infelicity
nounEtymology
From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.
- derived from fēlīcitātem
- derived from felicité
- inherited from felicite — “bliss, happiness, joy; delight, pleasure; a source of happiness; good fortune; prosperity; well-being; of a planet: in an influential position”
Definitions
The condition of being infelicitous.
- The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]
Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
- Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.
The neighborhood
- antonymfelicityantonym(s) of “condition”
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for infelicity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA