infelicity

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18
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20
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10

Definition of infelicity

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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 […]”
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noun

  1. (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 […]”
  2. (countable)Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
    “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.”

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Etymology

From in- + felicity, from Latin infelicitas.

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