levity
lev·ity (lev′i tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- Rare lightness of weight; buoyancy
- lightness or gaiety of disposition, conduct, or speech; esp., improper or unbecoming gaiety or flippancy; lack of seriousness; frivolity
- fickleness; instability
Etymology: OFr levité < L levitas < levis, light
Preposition: into
- proceeding: Anyway her version of ' My Favorite Things ' was another attempt to inject some levity into the proceedings.
Converse of object
- inject: Anyway her version of ' My Favorite Things ' was another attempt to inject some levity into the proceedings.
- need: These guys just saved my butt at a time in my life when I just needed levity, there they were.
- have: For mere resignation has neither the gigantic levity of pleasure nor the superb intolerance of pain.
Adjective modifier
- little: The satin underwear thing came about as the result of her trying to inject a little levity into the proceedings at the first interview.
- such: And yet, having regard to the transcendent importance and solemnity of the questions here at issue, such levity is intolerable.
- much: The happy audience strolled back out into the stormy night feeling much levity in comparison to the evenings heavy weather.
- general: The allusion to the hilarity of the students and the general levity of the occasions aroused Coleridge's indignation.
I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.
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