Felicific
/ˌfiːlɪˈsɪfɪk/noun
Tending to cause happiness or promote well-being.
Did you know?Felicific comes from Latin roots tied to happiness and making, and its first recorded use in English is famously linked to Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy, where language itself became a tool for engineering human joy.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
felix
“happy, fortunate, fruitful”
Latin
Latin
-ficare
“to make or do”
18th Century
English
felicific
“tending to produce happiness; conducive to pleasure or welfare”
Modern English
English
felicific
“causing happiness or well-being”