Difference between Happiness and Felicity

What is the difference between Happiness and Felicity?

Happiness as a noun is joy, the emotion of being happy. while Felicity as a noun is happiness.

Happiness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: joy, the emotion of being happy. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness. Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.

Example sentence: True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Felicity

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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."

Example sentence: Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

We hope you now know whether to use Happiness or Felicity in your sentence.

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