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Webster 1913 Edition

Infelicity

Inˊfe-lic′i-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Infelicities
(#)
.
[L.
infelicitas
: cf. F.
infélicité
. See
In-
not, and
Felicity
.]
1.
The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness.
I. Watts.
Whatever is the ignorance and
infelicity
of the present state, we were made wise and happy.
Glanvill.
2.
That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous;
as,
infelicities
of speech
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Infelicity

INFELIC'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. infelicitas. See Felicity.]
Unhappiness; misfortune.
1.
Unfortunate state; unfaborableness; as the infelicity of the times, or of the occasion.

Definition 2024

infelicity

infelicity

English

Noun

infelicity ‎(countable and uncountable, plural infelicities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous
  2. (countable) Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
    • 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, DOI:10.1007/s10670-007-9086-6:
      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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