Levity
WordNet
noun
(1) A manner lacking seriousness
(2) Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Coined in 1564, from , from .
Cognate to .
Noun
- lightness of manner or speech, frivolity
- lack of steadiness
- 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
- Robert Montgomery Bird:
- A lighthearted or frivolous act
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