levity
Senso (Inglese)
- (uncountable, usually) A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A lack of steadiness.
- (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
- (countable, usually) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/
Etimologia (Inglese)
Coined in 1564, from Latin levitās (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
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