felicity
Example Sentences
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In other words, “Luck” takes things that are intangible — in this case, random felicity and affliction — and imagines them as palpable.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022
Serenity, personal growth and felicity may not be seductive topics for a contemporary R&B record.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
Rogoyska’s “Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth” won the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize for combining “intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2022
He argued that dirty streets were a welcome sign of prosperity — "a necessary evil, inseparable from the felicity of London."
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2021
In their zeal to purify usage and safeguard the language, they have made it difficult to think clearly about felicity in expression and have muddied the task of explaining the art of writing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing felicity
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Grade 11, List 3
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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