Entry Word: frivolity

Function: noun

Meaning: a lack of seriousness often at an improper time <the boys were scolded for joking during the funeral service, which was hardly the time for frivolity>

Synonyms facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolousness, levity, light-headedness, lightness

Related Words cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth

Near Antonyms gloom, melancholy, moroseness, sadness, sullenness

Synonyms gravity, intentness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety