"levity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-levity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: levities [plural]
Etymology: Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|levitās||lightness, frivolity}} Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), {{m|la|levis||lightness (in weight)}} levis (“lightness (in weight)”), {{m|en|lever}} lever, {{m|en|light}} light Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} levity (usually uncountable, plural levities)
  1. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (lightness of manner or speech): թեթեւություն (tʻetʻewutʻyun) (Armenian), несериозност (neserioznost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), lehkomyslnost [feminine] (Czech), kerglus (Estonian), kepeys (Finnish), kevytmielisyys (Finnish), nonchalance [feminine] (French), légèreté [feminine] (French), Lockerheit [feminine] (German), Unbeschwertheit [feminine] (German), Ungezwungenheit [feminine] (German), Leichtfertigkeit [feminine] (German), Leichtsinn [masculine] (German), Leichtigkeit [feminine] (German), Unernsthaftigkeit [feminine] (German), éadroime [feminine] (Irish), levitās [feminine] (Latin), جلفی (jelfi) (Persian), leveza (Portuguese), несерьёзность (neserʹjóznostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), легкомы́слие (lexkomýslije) [masculine] (Russian), ветреность (vetrenostʹ) (Russian), ysgafnder [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-levity-en-noun-dWCn1epB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 6 30 5 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 49 10 34 6 Disambiguation of 'lightness of manner or speech': 95 1 3 1
  2. (obsolete) Lack of steadiness. Tags: obsolete, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-levity-en-noun-IPzH-7rU
  3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (state or quality of being light): թեթեւություն (tʻetʻewutʻyun) (Armenian), lehkost [feminine] (Czech), keveys (Finnish), légèreté [feminine] (French), سبکی (saboki) (Persian), лёгкость (ljóxkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), frivolo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-levity-en-noun-bLV0DqSX Disambiguation of 'state or quality of being light': 1 0 97 1
  4. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act. Tags: countable, usually Translations (lighthearted or frivolous act): թեթեւամտություն (tʻetʻewamtutʻyun) (Armenian), թեթեւսոլիկություն (tʻetʻewsolikutʻyun) (Armenian), лекомислие (lekomislie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), вятърничавост (vjatǎrničavost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), lehkovážnost [feminine] (Czech), frivolnost [feminine] (Czech), luchthartigheid (Dutch), luchtig (Dutch), kevytmielisyys (Finnish), päähänpisto (Finnish), frivolité [feminine] (French), Leichtfertigkeit (German), سبکسری (sabok-sari) (Persian), leviandade (Portuguese), вольность (volʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), frivolidad (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-levity-en-noun-9L1eyFdf Disambiguation of 'lighthearted or frivolous act': 2 0 1 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: levitous

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1869, Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science, 1.1.12",
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          "ref": "1665, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Gutenberg",
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      "glosses": [
        "Lack of steadiness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steadiness",
          "steadiness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Lack of steadiness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, Peter Pilgrim",
          "text": "[…]it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869, Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science, 1.1.12",
          "text": "Hydrogen […] rises in the air on account of its levity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being light, buoyancy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "buoyancy",
          "buoyancy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1665, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Gutenberg",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo",
          "text": "[…] or do the people joy less than common in their levities?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne",
          "text": "His incorrigible levities had probably lost him the countenance of most of his more serious acquaintances[…].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lighthearted or frivolous act."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lighthearted",
          "lighthearted"
        ],
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʻetʻewutʻyun",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "թեթեւություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "neserioznost",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "несериозност"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lehkomyslnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "kerglus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "kepeys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "kevytmielisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nonchalance"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "légèreté"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lockerheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Unbeschwertheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ungezwungenheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Leichtfertigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Leichtsinn"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Leichtigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Unernsthaftigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "éadroime"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "levitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jelfi",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "جلفی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "leveza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neserʹjóznostʹ",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "несерьёзность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lexkomýslije",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "легкомы́слие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vetrenostʹ",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "word": "ветреность"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "lightness of manner or speech",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ysgafnder"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʻetʻewutʻyun",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "word": "թեթեւություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lehkost"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "word": "keveys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "légèreté"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "saboki",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "word": "سبکی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ljóxkostʹ",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "лёгкость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state or quality of being light",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "frivolo"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʻetʻewamtutʻyun",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "թեթեւամտություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʻetʻewsolikutʻyun",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "թեթեւսոլիկություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lekomislie",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лекомислие"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vjatǎrničavost",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вятърничавост"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lehkovážnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "frivolnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "luchthartigheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "luchtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "kevytmielisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "päähänpisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "frivolité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "Leichtfertigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sabok-sari",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "سبکسری"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "leviandade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вольность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lighthearted or frivolous act",
      "word": "frivolidad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "levity"
}

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