frivolousness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]frivolousness (countable and uncountable, plural frivolousnesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being frivolous.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 150:
- I felt, as usual, my own smallness next to her, the scale of what she had achieved, the frivolousness of my own occupation in comparison, despite all she’d tried to direct me towards.
- (countable) The result of being frivolous.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]quality of being frivolous — see frivolity
result of being friovolous — see frivolity