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flippancy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of flippancy

a lack of seriousness often at an improper time

no one appreciates your flippancy during our religious services

Synonyms of flippancy

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

Words Related to flippancy

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

childishness, goofiness, puerility

Near Antonyms of flippancy

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

Antonyms of flippancy

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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