levity
Meanings
Plural: levities
Noun
- feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- a manner lacking seriousness
- Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- Lack of steadiness.
- The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
- A lighthearted or frivolous act.
Origin / Etymology
Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
levity is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlevity is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
levity is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
levity is a valid Words With Friends word