Infelicity

1. (n.) The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.

2. (n.) That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.

Thesaurus Entries

Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism, barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness, broken heart, cacology, cacophony, cheerlessness, clumsiness, coarseness, corruption, crudeness, crushing, cumbrousness, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, discontent, displeasure, dysphemism, extremity, futility, gracelessness, grief, grimness, grossness, harshness, heartache, heaviness, heavy heart, humorlessness, ill-balanced sentences, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impropriety, impurity, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconcinnity, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infestivity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, irrelevancy, joylessness, lack of finish, lack of polish, lateness, leadenness, maladjustment, malapropism, melancholia, melancholy, mesalliance, mirthlessness, misalliance, misconstruction, misery, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, missaying, misusage, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, prematurity, prostration, roughness, rudeness, sadness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, suicidal despair, tastelessness, turgidity, uncheerfulness, uncongeniality, uncouthness, undesirability, uneuphoniousness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungracefulness, ungrammaticism, unhappiness, unjoyfulness, unmeetness, unmirthfulness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwieldiness, unwiseness, uselessness, vulgarism, vulgarity, woe, worthlessness, wretchedness, wrongness