as in lightness
a lack of seriousness often at an improper time
the teachers disapprove of any displays of levity during school assemblies
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Recent Examples of levity
While the stakes are high, there's still levity to the show, specifically between Ackles' character and Camacho's Amber Oliveras.
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Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 May 2025
No such levity is expected now as the Panthers -- finally beaten, finally humbled -- head back to Raleigh.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 27 May 2025
Eileen curses and takes sips of wine, bringing unexpected levity to a film that is ultimately about spiritual warfare.
—Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Later, Lin will reveal this moment of levity to be something between a memory and a fantasy of better times for the Chao family.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025
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Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 May 2025
No such levity is expected now as the Panthers -- finally beaten, finally humbled -- head back to Raleigh.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 27 May 2025
Eileen curses and takes sips of wine, bringing unexpected levity to a film that is ultimately about spiritual warfare.
—Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Later, Lin will reveal this moment of levity to be something between a memory and a fantasy of better times for the Chao family.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for levity
Noun
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When the theme arrived in the cellos, Guerrero maintained their levity and grace throughout the movement — and, in fact, throughout much of the piece, bringing an aerodynamic lightness even to the symphony’s final cadence.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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After Appeals Court Pauses Ruling While the bolster gives support and balance to the knife, the lightness of the bolster-free Japanese knives offers ergonomic benefits.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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As the country’s friends have looked on in horror and its rivals have watched with glee, the United States has gone from indispensable to insufferable.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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The crowd stood up and with nervous laughter streamed toward the lobby, then galloped into the street with the glee of prisoners released.—
Andrew Kay,
Harpers Magazine,
28 May 2025
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Courage is good, but so is sensitivity; seriousness is good, but so is frivolity; rationality is good, but so is imagination.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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Renoir’s film dramatized the end of an era (of high-society frivolities, as war loomed), and so does Anderson’s; namely, the end of the age of buccaneer industrialism.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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“Levity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/levity. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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