levity

n.不严肃,轻浮

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
levity (noun)
1.
excessive or unseemly frivolity
2.
lack of steadiness - changeableness
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
levity (noun)
a lack of seriousness often at an improper time
SYNONYMS:
facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-headedness, light-mindedness, lightness, silliness
RELATED WORDS:
cheer, cheerfulness, festivity, gaiety ( gayety), glee, gleefulness, high-spiritedness, hilarity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness; childishness, goofiness, puerility
NEAR ANTONYMS:
dejection, depression, despondency, dispiritedness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, mopes, moroseness, sadness, sullenness, unhappiness
earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness
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