Meaning and example

pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

The passage used "felicity" to mean pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression).

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.492 places felicity in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.7% of people in the source dataset.

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Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.

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