levity

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/

Noun

uncountable usually obsolete countable

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters. / (obsolete) Lack of steadiness. / The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

Japanese Meaning

態度や言葉に現れる軽妙さ・軽薄さ、つまり深刻さに欠け冗談混じりの性格を示す意味 / （古い用法）不安定さ、定まらなさ / 軽さ、または物が浮く性質（浮力・揚力）の意味

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His inappropriate levity during the ceremony offended many attendees.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

式典での彼の不適切な軽薄さは多くの出席者を不快にさせた。

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Sense（1）

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

Sense（2）

(obsolete) Lack of steadiness.

Sense（3）

The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

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Sense（4）

(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

For though it be something wonderful to tell that any should have hearts so hardened, in the midst of such a calamity, as to rob and steal, yet certain it is that all sorts of villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practiced in the town as openly as ever: I will not say quite as frequently, because the number of people were many ways lessened.

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levities

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