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felicity

[fi-lis-i-tee] / fɪˈlɪs ɪ ti /


NOUN
appropriateness
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Hindus believe Hinglaj Mata is one the places where the remains of Sati, the goddess of marital felicity and longevity, fell to earth after she ended her life.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

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

“That may be the chief reason many of us love cats. They possess as their birthright a felicity humans regularly fail to attain.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2020

As Anne Enright noted years ago, “Hadley, for all the felicity of her prose style, is an immensely subversive writer.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019

“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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