Infelicity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Infelicity is a noun meaning (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous.
Meaning
(uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous.
More Meanings
- (countable) Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
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.
Word Forms
- infelicities
Antonyms for infelicity
Common opposites include felicity, felicitousness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unfelicitousness, unfelicity, infelicitousness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unbefittingness.
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