facetiousness

facetiousness

noun

Definition of FACETIOUSNESS

a lack of seriousness often at an improper time <underage drinking is a serious problem and not a matter for facetiousness and lame jokes>

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

Related Words cheer, cheerfulness, festivity, gaiety (also 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

Antonyms earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness