levity

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (uncountable, usually) A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A lack of steadiness.
  3. (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
  4. (countable, usually) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

Traduzioni

ελαφρότητα

Leichtfertigkeit

ελευθεροστομία

sebatsızlık

düşüncesizlik

hoppalık

hafiflik

ελαφρότης

αστάθεια

Frequenza

38k
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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