levity

levity
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
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n. frivolity (see folly); lightness (see levity).
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Lightness in weight
Nouns
1. levity, lightness, buoyancy, imponderability, weightlessness, volatility, airiness, levitation; fermentation, effervescence, ebullience.
2. (light object) feather, fluff, down, thistledown, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, mote, dust, air, ether; lightweight, featherweight.
3. (substance causing lightness) leaven, ferment, yeast, barm, baking soda or powder; zyme, enzyme, diastase, pepsin.
Verbs
1. lighten, levitate, float, swim, rise, soar, hang, waft; uplift, upraise, buoy up, unburden.
2. leaven, raise, work, ferment; effervesce.
Adjectives
1. light, airy, feathery, fluffy, puffy, vapory, zephyry; subtle; weightless, ethereal, sublimated, volatile; buoyant, floating; portable; imponderable, imponderous.
2. foamy, yeasty, barmy, frothy; effervescent; fermentative, fermenting; zymotic, zymic, enzymic, diastatic, peptic.
Quotations — He who would travel happily must travel light (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
Antonyms, see gravity.
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. flippancy, high spirits, giddiness; see frivolity , happiness 1 .
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n.
[LEV i tee]
light or unserious behavior, frivolity.
His jokes added much-needed levity to the occasion.
SYN.: lightness, frivolity, lightheartedness, foolishness, silliness, buoyancy, mirth, merriment, whimsy, giddiness.
ANT.: seriousness, gravity, somberness

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