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felicity

[fi-lis-i-tee] / fɪˈlɪs ɪ ti /


NOUN
appropriateness
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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

Such is the mystery of Erdrich’s work, and “The Sentence” is among her most magical novels, switching tones with the felicity of a mockingbird.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2021

Neglecting to explore this gives the viewer little reason to witness that struggle beyond the lesson of it; there must be, should be, the counterbalancing representation of felicity, and in large doses.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020

“What felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy!—If I mistake not that was danced at Weymouth.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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