levity
light-heartedness, lightness of manner or speech
TRANSLATION
die Leichtfertigkeit, der Leichtsinn
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"The only thing the Indian cricketers will be doing when they are 40, says Mr Akbar, is to 'stare longingly at all the money they have collected' from their advertising sponsors. Such LEVITY is hard to find elsewhere."
(BBC News - 13 February 2003)
(BBC News - 13 February 2003)
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1. Lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate; frivolity.
2. Inconstancy; changeableness.
3. The state or quality of being light; buoyancy.
Levity, Volatility, Flightiness. All these words relate to outward conduct.
LEVITY springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark
VOLATILITY is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment. Volatility of temper, of spirits
FLIGHTINESS is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness. Flightiness of mind or disposition.
1. Lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate; frivolity.
2. Inconstancy; changeableness.
3. The state or quality of being light; buoyancy.
Levity, Volatility, Flightiness. All these words relate to outward conduct.
LEVITY springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark
VOLATILITY is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment. Volatility of temper, of spirits
FLIGHTINESS is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness. Flightiness of mind or disposition.
