Meaning and example
pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
The passage used "felicity" to mean pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.492 places felicity in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 93.6%
the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- Known by
- 93.7%
changeable
- Known by
- 93.8%
surrender under agreed conditions
- Known by
- 93.5%
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Known by
- 93.4%
not injurious to physical or mental health
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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