levity

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 References

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[edit] Etymology

1564, Latin levitas (“‘lightness, frivolity’”) from levis (“‘lightness (in weight)’”).^[1]

Cognate to lever.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (US) SAMPA:/"lE.vI.ti/

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levity (uncountable)

1. lightness of manner or speech, frivolity
2. (obsolete) lack of steadiness
3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy

   quotations:

   • "...it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness..." — Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)

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• Notes:

1. ^ “levity” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001