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
Joan's a dream to play - she's not always prancing around the office. There's that side to it, which is really fun, but there's nitty-gritty. She's what makes the workplace so fun - in a workplace that can be so dark and so much tension, Joan gives some levity. And the wonderful thing is she still has these darker moments among the fabulous highs.
Christina Hendricks
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
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day
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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