Felicity vs Blessedness - What's the difference?
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Happiness.
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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
, passage=The season’s main attraction, the felicities of the sun, dimmed in the light of our competition and our growing friendliness. }}
The state or condition of being blessed, holy.
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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
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Antonyms
* (happiness) infelicityDerived terms
* felicific * felicitate * felicitation * felicitousblessedness
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(-)- ''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 .