- infelicity (n.)
- late 14c., "unhappiness," from Latin infelicitas "bad luck, misfortune, unhappiness," from infelix (genitive infelicis) "unfruitful, barren; unfortunate, unhappy; causing misfortune, unlucky," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + felix (see felicity). Meaning "inappropriateness, unhappiness as to occasion" is from 1610s.
