levity.
A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
Meaning & usage
A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
An attempt to inject a little levity into the proceedings.
A lack of steadiness.
The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
A lighthearted or frivolous act.
Where this word comes from
Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
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