Meanings
plural infelicities
- uncountableThe 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 […]
2007, Andrew Zurcher, Spenser's legal language: law and poetry in early modern England, page 4 - countableSomething 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.
2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
antonym(s) of “condition”
nouninappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininfelicitas
- Englishinfelicity
From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian злополучие
- злополучие (zlopolučie)Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with infelicity
Cite this entry
infelicity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infelicity
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