"frivolousness" meaning in English

See frivolousness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: frivolousnesses [plural]
Etymology: From frivolous + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|frivolous|ness}} frivolous + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} frivolousness (countable and uncountable, plural frivolousnesses)
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being frivolous. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-frivolousness-en-noun-7zmeE06F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4
  2. (countable) The result of being frivolous. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-frivolousness-en-noun-i9KO1uxO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: frivolity, frivolosity

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frivolous",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "frivolous + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From frivolous + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "frivolousnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "frivolousness (countable and uncountable, plural frivolousnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "I felt, as usual, my own smallness next to her, the scale of what she had achieved, the frivolousness of my own occupation in comparison, despite all she’d tried to direct me towards.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being frivolous."
      ],
      "id": "en-frivolousness-en-noun-7zmeE06F",
      "links": [
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality of being frivolous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The result of being frivolous."
      ],
      "id": "en-frivolousness-en-noun-i9KO1uxO",
      "links": [
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The result of being frivolous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "frivolity"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "frivolosity"
    }
  ],
  "word": "frivolousness"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ness",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frivolous",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "frivolous + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From frivolous + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "frivolousnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "frivolousness (countable and uncountable, plural frivolousnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "I felt, as usual, my own smallness next to her, the scale of what she had achieved, the frivolousness of my own occupation in comparison, despite all she’d tried to direct me towards.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being frivolous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality of being frivolous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The result of being frivolous."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The result of being frivolous."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "frivolity"
    },
    {
      "word": "frivolosity"
    }
  ],
  "word": "frivolousness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for frivolousness meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.