levity
A lightness of manner or speech, frivolityA lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
» They're handling the issue with levity.
Meaning
4 senses(uncountable, usually)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.
Lockerheit, Unbeschwertheit, Ungezwungenheit
несерьёзностьneserʹjóznostʹ, легкомы́слиеlexkomýslije, ветреностьvetrenostʹ
(uncountable, usually)The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
лёгкостьljóxkostʹ
(countable, usually)A lighthearted or frivolous act.
Leichtfertigkeit
вольностьvolʹnostʹ
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)A lack of steadiness.
feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
Examples
1 sentencesThey're handling the issue with levity.
Translations
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Origin
Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weCoined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
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Forms
plural: levitiesAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable