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Meaning of "infelicities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFELICITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFELICITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infelicities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFELICITIES

infectiousness
infective
infectively
infectiveness
infectivity
infector
infecund
infecundity
infeft
infeftment
infelicitous
infelicitously
infelicity
infelt
infer
inferable
inferably
infere
inference
inferencing

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFELICITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of infelicities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INFELICITIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «infelicities» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of infelicities

Translation of «infelicities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFELICITIES

Find out the translation of infelicities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of infelicities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infelicities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

infelicities
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impropiedades
570 millions of speakers

English

infelicities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

infelicities
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infelicities
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Погрешности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infelicidades
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

infelicities
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maladresses
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infelicities
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unglücke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不備
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infelicities
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infelicities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infelicities
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infelicities
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्बलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infelicities
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infelicità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieszczęśliwości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

похибки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infelicities
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

infelicities
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infelicities
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infelicities
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infelicities
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infelicities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFELICITIES»

The term «infelicities» is normally little used and occupies the 144.835 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFELICITIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «infelicities» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «infelicities» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infelicities

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFELICITIES»

Discover the use of infelicities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infelicities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Infelicities: Representations of the Exotic
In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present.
Peter Mason, 1998
2
The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of ...
The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism identifies a conceptual tendency that can be drawn from the work of the twentieth century's best-known analytic philosophers of art: Arthur Danto, Richard Wollheim, Kendall ...
Joseph Margolis, 2013
3
Social Infelicities of Half-Knowledge
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Bernard Moses, 2010
4
Matrimonial Infelicities Matrimonial Infelicities: With an ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Barry Gray, 2010
5
Doing Philosophy
Stylistic. Infelicities. THE CONCEPT OF STYLE Like grammatical and dictional “ correctness,” style is thought to be a feature of writing that is independent of content. In that sense, style is a formal, rather than a substantive, characteristic of  ...
Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau, 2007
6
Matrimonial Infelicities, with an Occasional Felicity, by ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Barry Gray, 2010
7
Matrimonial Infelicities, with an Occasional Felicity, by ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Gray Barry 1826-1886, HardPress, 2013
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Methods of Legal Reasoning
Austin pays a lot of attention to situations in which performatives turn out to be unfortunate (so-called infelicities). These considerations are of special interest for us. Austin developed a typology of infelicities. It has to be stressed, first, that we ...
Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brożek, 2006
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How to Do Things with Words
We need names for referring to this general distinction, so we shall call in general those infelicities A. I-B. 2 which are such that the act for the performing of which, and in the performing of which, the verbal formula in question is designed, is not  ...
John Langshaw Austin, J. O. Urmson, 1975
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The Knickerbocker
E. F. E. MUSICAL INFELICITIES. I was much pleased by the perusal of the lament of one Oldschool, in a recent number of the Knickerbocker, wherein he discoursed with true feeling and discretion upon the theme of Music ' under the ...
‎1834

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFELICITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infelicities is used in the context of the following news items.
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“So what! The contract just goes in the bottom drawer.”
In complex documents of the kind in issue there are bound to be ambiguities, infelicities and inconsistencies. An over-literal interpretation of ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
2
Fonts and Nonsense: What Bookerly and Literata Get Wrong
But apart from these typographical infelicities borne of shoddy decision-making under hardware constraints, there's the more broadly ... «Digital Book World, Jul 15»
3
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen review – the guru and the …
... certainly convince the reader that the author has carefully catalogued the linguistic infelicities common to such forms and human stereotypes. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Decision not to warn dishonest doctor was unduly lenient
Whilst the PSA had embarked upon a forensic examination of the determination, seeking to identify ambiguities, omissions or "infelicities of ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
5
Professor at Dundee University wins major literary award
In the end we chose Kirsty Gunn's Infelicities for its haunting imagery and the beauty of its style. Sentence by sentence, Infidelities shows us the ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
6
Latest exercise in vocabulary shaming once again tells women they …
In that case, their infelicities lead to getting overlooked or underestimated in the workplace. They "undermine" themselves with punctuation, ... «rabble.ca, Jun 15»
7
What we talk about when we talk about Kanye West
We hardly know where to start when detailing the wretched infelicities and ego trips perpetrated by a hundred white stars who have played ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
8
The Future Is Here, It's Just Unevenly Distributed Systems
In fact I'd argue that Google App Engine, for all its flaws and infelicities, does just that.) And I'm personally inclined to–where possible–wait for ... «TechCrunch, Jun 15»
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Supreme Court re-emphasises importance of “natural meaning” in …
However, that does not justify the court embarking on an exercise of searching for, let alone constructing, drafting infelicities in order to facilitate ... «Lexology, Jun 15»
10
THINGS THAT MATTER: Magna Carta – The Great Charter of Liberties
... the preservation of our rights and liberties, which are never guaranteed in today's wide world of widespread political infelicities and arbitrary ... «Barbados Advocate, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Infelicities [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/infelicities>. Apr 2024 ».
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