Usage examples (17)

• But either way it is all odd, as if there were some kind of felicific calculus for friendship and one that applies to us all equally, however different our natures.
• The felicific or hedonic valence of these various consequences can be mixed.
• In any felicific calculus, he is unlikely to go down in history as the man who created the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
• Some stopped at the outset with the felicific calculus, argued that pleasure was an evanescent phenomenon, that it could not be added or summed up.