levity | Definition of levity

Synonyms and Antonyms of levity

a lack of seriousness often at an improper time

the teachers disapprove of any displays of levity during school assemblies

Synonyms of levity

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, light-headedness, light-mindedness, lightness, silliness

Words Related to levity

cheer, cheerfulness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, high-spiritedness, hilarity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness

childishness, goofiness, puerility

Near Antonyms of levity

dejection, depression, despondency, dispiritedness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, mopes, moroseness, sadness, sullenness, unhappiness

Antonyms of levity

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness