levity

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/

Noun

levity (uncountable)

1. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
2. (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

   • Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had 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 […]

   • 1869, Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:

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

4. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

Antonyms

• gravity

Translations

• French: nonchalance, légèreté
• Portuguese: leveza
• Russian: несерьёзность

Translations

• French: légèreté
• Russian: лёгкость

Translations

• French: frivolité
• German: Leichtfertigkeit
• Russian: вольность

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