felicitousness
IPA: fɪɫˈɪsʌtʌsnʌs
noun
- The state or condition of being felicitous.
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Examples of "felicitousness" in Sentences
- But his odd lack of seductiveness or felicitousness-contributing to his aura of villainy-became after a while alluring in itself.
- But his odd lack of seductiveness or felicitousness — contributing to his aura of villainy — became after a while alluring in itself.
- In retort for Severance's stab, he dubbed the pair Mephistopheles and Falstaff, which was above his usual felicitousness of characterization.
- His finest defence of his habitual solitude occurs in these letters also, and has some statements whose felicitousness can hardly be surpassed.
- It emasculates the drama with its pervasive prettiness, its lazy felicitousness where it ought to be monstrous and terrifying, its reminiscences of Mendelssohn, Tchaikowsky and "Little Egypt."
- Except with this difference, that I fall far short of his felicitousness, as people who had known him in his prime often told me, when he was over severity and I was correspondingly along in years.
- That pomp of language, that full and tuneful diction, that felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words, which to prosaic writers seem artificial, is nothing else but the mere habit and way of a lofty intellect.
- By no means the least of the pleasant features of this pleasant day was the fact that three couples blushingly presented themselves before the colonel, and confided to him their sudden conclusions in regard to the felicitousness of the moment.
- If another sting could have been added it was the absurd conviction that Cressy would not appreciate his sacrifice, but was perhaps even at that moment calmly congratulating herself on the felicitousness of the complication in which she had left him.
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