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Meanings of levity in English

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levitat

Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.

        levitat
        Usage of levity in English
        1
        Yet this august levity is not moral indifference; it is moral freedom.
        A Miscellany of Men
        2
        The charm, he told himself, was in the levity of the situation.
        The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
        3
        But his levity did not disturb the fat boy in the least.
        The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks; Or, The Secret of Ruby Mounta...
        4
        After a moment, Robin speaks up, a forced levity in his voice.
        Robin and ruby
        5
        Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
        The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
        6
        There is no austerity in its piety, no levity in its gladness.
        Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters, Volume 3
        7
        They saw nothing in it but the levity of a young man.
        Marie; a story of Russian love
        8
        The young Italians grew annoyed by this sudden end to their levity.
        Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
        9
        I don't think it should be treated with any sense of levity.
        Wired
        10
        What seemed the levity of her desertion was the devotion of self-sacrifice.
        A Strange Story — Volume 07
        11
        But much of the time Deianara showed all together too much levity.
        Imperatrix
        12
        There is a levity abroad in our land which I must deplore.
        The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
        13
        It's yet more levity that helps the film from becoming unrelentingly grim.
        The Guardian
        14
        The difference in their ages and his authoritarian temperament offset Violette's levity.
        Island beneath the sea
        15
        I uphold our anonymous author on the general ground of her levity.'
        The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters
        16
        It could not quite resist Bernard Shaw's plays; it loved and levity.
        Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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        Levity through the time
        Levity across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common