Meaning of Levity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
   uncountable, usually
2. A lack of steadiness.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
   uncountable, usually
4. A lighthearted or frivolous act.
   countable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]”

“[…]it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness […]”

“Hydrogen […] rises in the air on account of its levity.”

“For though it be something wonderful to tell that any should have hearts so hardened, in the midst of such a calamity, as to rob and steal, yet certain it is that all sorts of villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practiced in the town as openly as ever: I will not say quite as frequently, because the number of people were many ways lessened.”

“[…] or do the people joy less than common in their levities?"”

“His incorrigible levities had probably lost him the countenance of most of his more serious acquaintances[…”

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