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FELICITOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does felicitousness mean?
• FELICITOUSNESS (noun)
The noun FELICITOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
Familiarity information: FELICITOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
felicitousness; felicity
Hypernyms ("felicitousness" is a kind of...):
appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)
Attribute:
felicitous (exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style)
infelicitous (not appropriate in application; defective)
Derivation:
felicitous (exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style)
felicitous (marked by good fortune)
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