levity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/    美 /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters. uncountable,usually
    — An attempt to inject a little levity into the proceedings.
  2. A lack of steadiness. obsolete,uncountable,usually
  3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy. uncountable,usually
    — Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]
  4. A lighthearted or frivolous act. countable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

levities plural

词汇关系

反义词
gravity
衍生词
levitous

词源

Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
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