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The talent for being happy, as if contentment were a skill and not a mood.
means Intense, often unexpected happiness — or a knack for finding exactly the right word or phrase at the right moment.
from From Latin 'felicitas' (happiness, good fortune), rooted in 'felix' (happy, fruitful, lucky) — the same root that gives cats everywhere their genus name 'Felis,' and the common Latin name Felix. Underneath 'felix' lies an old Indo-European root tied to fruitfulness and suckling, the same soil that grew words for milk and fertility — so at its core, felicity is etymologically a kind of ripeness, a fullness that eventually bloomed into pure good luck and joy.
- root
- latin felix, meaning lucky or fruitful
- usage shift
- once named luck, now means happiness itself
- bonus sense
- also means a pleasing, well chosen phrase
- sibling word
- infelicity, the art of saying it wrong