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frivolity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of frivolity

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 of frivolity

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

Words Related to frivolity

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

childishness, goofiness, puerility

Near Antonyms of frivolity

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

Antonyms of frivolity

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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