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. }}

Noun

(en noun)

The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.

* 1883 ,

And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth.

*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp

, chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth , and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

* 1912 , :

Their eyes met and they began to laugh. They laughed as children do when they cannot contain themselves, and can not explain the cause of their mirth to grown people, but share it perfectly together.

That which causes merriment.

* 1922 ,

Phantasmal mirth , folded away: muskperfumed.