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Felicity vs Celebrity - What's the difference?

felicity | celebrity |

As a proper noun felicity

is .

As a noun celebrity is

(label) a rite or ceremony.

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

    celebrity

    English

    (Celebrity)

    Noun

    (celebrities)
  • (label) A rite or ceremony.
  • (label) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
  • A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person ().
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fame) big name, distinction, eminence, renown * (person who has a high degree of recognition) big name, star, (informal) celeb, luminary, notable (noun)