Associations to the word «Levity»

Wiktionary

LEVITY, noun. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
LEVITY, noun. (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
LEVITY, noun. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
LEVITY, noun. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

Dictionary definition

LEVITY, noun. Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.
LEVITY, noun. A manner lacking seriousness.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky