levity
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/
The English word “levity” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- A lack of steadiness.
- The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
- A lighthearted or frivolous act.
Etymology
Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
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