'Infelicity' definitions:
Definition of 'infelicity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) [ant: felicitousness, felicity]
Definition of 'Infelicity'
From: GCIDE
- Infelicity \In`fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Infelicities. [L. infelicitas: cf. F. inf['e]licit['e]. See In- not, and Felicity.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infelicity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gothicism,
- 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