Definizione monolingua

levity

levity (usually uncountable; plural levities)

1. lightness of manner or speech, frivolity
2. (obsolete) lack of steadiness
3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy
   • F. Scott Fitzgerald
   • Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...
   • Robert Montgomery Bird:

     […] it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness […]

   • 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:

     Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity.

4. A lighthearted or frivolous act
   • 1665, Daniel Defoe, History of the Plague in London^[1]:

     For though it be something wonderful to tell that any should have hearts so hardened, in the midst of such a calamity, as to rob and steal, yet certain it is that all sorts of villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practiced in the town as openly as ever: I will not say quite as frequently, because the number of people were many ways lessened.

   • 1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo^[2]:

     […] or do the people joy less than common in their levities?""

   • 1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne^[3]:

     His incorrigible levities had probably lost him the countenance of most of his more serious acquaintances […] .

Definizione dizionario levity

frivolezza

leggerezza

spensieratezza

Altri significati:

The state or quality of being light, buoyancy

lightness of manner or speech, frivolity

A lighthearted or frivolous act

(obsolete) lack of steadiness

lightness of manner or speech