Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

infelicity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-fe-lic-i-ty
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition of being infelicitous.

Uncountable

noun

Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate

Countable

Example Sentences

"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 […]"
"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."

Etymology

From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.

Usage

Inflected Forms

infelicities (plural)

Antonyms

felicity

Rhymes With

electricity publicity simplicity ethnicity toxicity felicity elasticity plasticity historicity chromaticity atomicity benedicite

Questions

What does infelicity mean?: The condition of being infelicitous.
Where does infelicity come from?: From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.

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