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Infelicity vs Mischance - What's the difference?

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Infelicity is a related term of mischance.


As nouns the difference between infelicity and mischance

is that infelicity is (uncountable) the condition of being infelicitous while mischance is bad luck, misfortune.

infelicity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being infelicitous
  • (countable) Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
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    • , passage=Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed. }}

    Antonyms

    * (condition) felicity

    mischance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Bad luck, misfortune.
  • * 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), V.2:
    • But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.
  • A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
  • *, II.3.3:
    • He doth miraculously protect from thieves, incursions, sword, fire, and all violent mischances  […].

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