Levity
WordNet

noun


(1)   A manner lacking seriousness
(2)   Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
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Etymology


Coined in 1564, from , from .

Cognate to .

Noun



  1. lightness of manner or speech, frivolity
  2. lack of steadiness
  3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy
    • Robert Montgomery Bird:
      it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness
  4. A lighthearted or frivolous act
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  6. } or do the people joy less than common in their levities?" }}
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