levity

Meaning

Noun

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; 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.

Related

Opposite words

gravity

Origin

Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās, from levis. Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.

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