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levity
/ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/
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What does levity mean?
noun
- A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
- A lighthearted or frivolous act.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A lack of steadiness.
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One instance will suffice to show the sinister levity, the utter absence of all moral sense in this strange creature.
She could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him and his friend.
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On this latter point he felt almost certain, knowing her freedom from levity of character, and the extreme simplicity of her intellect.
Soon after this M. de Bellegarde, in punishment for his levity, received a stern poke in the back from a pointed instrument.
But he said nothing, and all suggestion of levity left his mind, under the searching inspection bent upon him by the young man's hollow eyes.