English Dictionary

levity

/ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/

noun

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters. / (obsolete) Lack of steadiness. / The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

She brought levity to the room with her jokes.

意味（1）

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Lack of steadiness.

意味（3）

The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]

意味（4）

(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

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.