What does infelicity mean?
Infelicity means (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) 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 […]
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.
Use infelicity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Infelicity means (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include felicity, felicitousness.
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 […]
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