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Felicity vs Blessedness - What's the difference?

felicity | blessedness | Related terms |

Felicity is a related term of blessedness.


As a proper noun felicity

is .

As a noun blessedness is

the state or condition of being blessed, holy.

felicity

English

Noun

(-)
  • Happiness.
  • *
  • Apt and pleasing style in writing, speech, etc.
  • Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
  • (Semiotics/semiology) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity. eg. "The quotation was rendered with felicity."
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 7, author=Joshua Ferris, title=Table for Two, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The season’s main attraction, the felicities of the sun, dimmed in the light of our competition and our growing friendliness. }}

    Antonyms

    * (happiness) infelicity

    Derived terms

    * felicific * felicitate * felicitation * felicitous

    blessedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
  • *
  • ''Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood
    ''To undergo such maiden pilgrimage:
    ''But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
    ''Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
    Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness .

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