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Meanings of levity in English

Catalan
levitat

Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.

levitat
Antonyms
Examples for "gravity"
Examples for "gravity"
1
The seemingly gravity-defying art market also reflects the nature of wealth today.
BBC
2
Still, he decided to make the gravity of the situation perfectly clear.
The charlemagne pursuit
3
The parties are aware of the gravity of the situation, said Mor.
Reuters
4
Nasa's reduced gravity education programme holds a special place in space history.
BBC
5
Venizelos said parties and deputies must weigh the gravity of the situation.
Reuters
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