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Definition of Felicitousness
1. Noun. Pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression).
Generic synonyms: Appropriateness
Attributes: Felicitous, Infelicitous
Derivative terms: Felicitous, Felicitous, Felicitate, Felicitous
Antonyms: Infelicity
Definition of Felicitousness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being felicitous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Felicitousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Felicitousness
Literary usage of Felicitousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"... the Bible will learn much from the felicitousness of the pr<>ent exposition.
For Mr. Robertson Smith is not only a ' full man,' but has a singular gift ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"In the main they are qualities of delicacy and felicitousness rather than of
strength. They bear a relation to Milton's later English poetry roughly ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"... is often observable in little turns of expression, which please no less by
their simplicity than by the felicitousness of the ideas which they embody. ..."
4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... excited by Chapman's poetic inventiveness, ranging over a wide field in the
choice of similes and settling on its choice with wonderful felicitousness. ..."
5. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses by John Henry Newman (1891)
"That pomp of language, that full and tuneful diction, that felicitousness in the
choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words, which to prosaic ..."
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