Definition of Levity

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Levity

The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.

Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.

Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.

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Levity Quotations

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.
Sheryl Crow

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
Nick Stahl

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
Edward Irving

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.
Michael Lesy

Levity Translations

levity in German is Leichtsinn
levity in Norwegian is lettsinn
levity in Spanish is levedad

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