Results for levity

Definitions of levity:

part of speech: noun

Lightness of weight: lightness of temper or conduct: thoughtlessness: disposition to trifle: vanity.

part of speech: noun

Lightness of temper or conduct; frivolity; idle pleasure; want of seriousness.

part of speech: noun

Lightness of disposition, conduct, etc.; trifling galety; lightness of weight.

Usage examples for levity:

• " I am of the opinion that he might have had more consideration for his father's feelings," she said, with a levity that jarred. "The Outcaste", F. E. Penny

• This general levity helped me to believe that, so far as the subject of the tip went, there wasn't much in it. "Embarrassments", Henry James

• It was the old note of levity anything but natural to to- night's mood and the matter in hand. "Saturday's Child", Kathleen Norris

• But there was no levity in her tone. "A Man and His Money", Frederic Stewart Isham