infelicity
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Infelicity \In`fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Infelicities}. [L.
infelicitas: cf. F. inf['e]licit['e]. See {In-} not, and
{Felicity}.]
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1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness;
misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or
appropriateness. --I. Watts.
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Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the
present state, we were made wise and happy.
--Glanvill.
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2. That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is
infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "infelicity":
Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind,
anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism,
barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness,
broken heart, cacology, cacophony, cheerlessness, clumsiness,
coarseness, corruption, crudeness, crushing, cumbrousness,
depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, discontent,
displeasure, dysphemism, extremity, futility, gracelessness, grief,
grimness, grossness, harshness, heartache, heaviness, heavy heart,
humorlessness, ill-balanced sentences, impoliticalness,
impoliticness, impropriety, impurity, inadmissibility,
inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness,
inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconcinnity, incongruity,
inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecorousness,
inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency,
infestivity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity,
interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, irrelevancy, joylessness,
lack of finish, lack of polish, lateness, leadenness,
maladjustment, malapropism, melancholia, melancholy, mesalliance,
mirthlessness, misalliance, misconstruction, misery, misjoinder,
misjoining, mismatch, missaying, misusage, pompousness,
ponderousness, poor diction, prematurity, prostration, roughness,
rudeness, sadness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality,
slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, suicidal despair,
tastelessness, turgidity, uncheerfulness, uncongeniality,
uncouthness, undesirability, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness,
unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness,
ungrammaticism, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmeetness,
unmirthfulness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,
unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseasonableness,
unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwieldiness,
unwiseness, uselessness, vulgarism, vulgarity, woe, worthlessness,
wretchedness, wrongness
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