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Definition of Infelicity
1. Noun. Inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression).
Definition of Infelicity
1. n. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
Definition of Infelicity
1. Noun. The condition of being infelicitous ¹
2. Noun. Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infelicity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infelicity
Literary usage of Infelicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"Cases of notorious domestic infelicity or infidelity called forth similar expres-
A CHARIVARI IN THE MIHM.E ACES. ..."
2. The Salvation of All Men Strictly Examined: And the Endless Punishment of by Jonathan Edwards (1790)
"... and infelicity ; but implies mortality only, or that confutation whereby men
are made mortal or liable to death and infelicity : this objection grants, ..."
3. Marriages of the Deaf in America: An Inquiry Concerning the Results of by Edward Allen Fay (1898)
"They simply determine the number of cases in which the marital infelicity is so
burdensome that the parties are willing to bear publicity of their most ..."
4. Life of Matthew Hale Carpenter: A View of the Honors and Achievements That by Frank Abial Flower (1883)
"Many laughable stories concerning the domestic infelicity of the firm of Ryan,
Carpenter & Jenkins were afloat at the time of its dissolution. ..."
5. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"... of the many evils attaching to the condition of sovereignty, the one greatest
infelicity was that none of those who were accounted friends would venture ..."
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