Felicitations vs Congratulations - What's the difference?
felicitations | congratulations |
Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
, title=
As nouns the difference between felicitations and congratulations
is that felicitations is plural of felicitation while congratulations is plural of lang=en.As interjections the difference between felicitations and congratulations
is that felicitations is congratulations! Well done while congratulations is expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.congratulations
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
