Meaning of Infelicity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The condition of being infelicitous.
   uncountable
2. Something that is infelicitous or inappropriate
   countable

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Examples

“The infelicity of this shift of subject only becomes apparent, again retrospectively, in line eight, directly after the reader's encounter with yet another inscrutable Spenserism […]”

“Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.”

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