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facetiousness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of facetiousness

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

Words Related to facetiousness

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

childishness, goofiness, puerility

Near Antonyms of facetiousness

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

Antonyms of facetiousness

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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