English-Thai Dictionary

levity

N ความ ตลกคะนอง  ความคะนอง  ไม่ เอาจริงเอาจัง  frivolity flippancy triviality giddiness kwam-ta-lok-ka-nong

 

levity

N ความ เบา (น้ำหนัก  kwam-bao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LEVITY

n.[L. levitas, from levis, light; connected perhaps with Eng. lift. ] 1. Lightness; the want of weight in a body, compared with another that is heavier. The ascent of a balloon in the air is owing to its levity, as the gas that fills it is lighter than common air.
2. Lightness of temper or conduct; inconstancy; changeableness; unsteadiness; as the levity of youth.
3. Want of due consideration; vanity; freak. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity or ostentation.
4. Gaiety of mind; want of seriousness; disposition to trifle. The spirit of religion and seriousness was succeeded by levity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LEVITY

Lev "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. levitas, fr. levis light in weight; akin to levare to raise. See Lever, n.]

 

1. The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. He gave the form of levity to that which ascended; to that which descended, the form of gravity. Sir. W. Raleigh. This bubble by reason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to the top. Bentley.

 

2. Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. " A spirit of levity and libertinism. " Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

 

3. Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility. The levity that is fatigued and disgusted with everything of which it is in possession. Burke.

 

Syn. -- Inconstancy; thoughtlessness; unsteadiness; inconsideration; volatility; flightiness. -- Levity, Volatility, Flightiness. All these words relate to outward conduct. Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place. Volatility is a degree of levity which causes the thoughts to fly from one object to another, without resting on any for a moment. Flightiness is volatility carried to an extreme which often betrays its subject into gross impropriety or weakness. Levity of deportment, of conduct, of remark; volatility of temper, of spirits; flightiness of mind or disposition.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

levity

lev i ty |ˈlevətē ˈlɛvədi | ▶noun humor or frivolity, esp. the treatment of a serious matter with humor or in a manner lacking due respect: as an attempt to introduce a note of levity, the words were a disastrous flop. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin levitas, from levis ‘light. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

levity

levity |ˈlɛvɪti | ▶noun ( pl. levities ) [ mass noun ] the treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect: as an attempt to introduce a note of levity, the words were a disastrous flop. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin levitas, from levis ‘light ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

levity

levity noun without some occasional levity, the working environment is no better than a sweatshop: lightheartedness, high spirits, vivacity, liveliness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, humor, gaiety, fun, jocularity, hilarity, frivolity, amusement, mirth, laughter, merriment, glee, comedy, wit, wittiness, jollity, joviality. ANTONYMS seriousness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

levity

levity noun 1 he did much to inject a note of levity into a very hard-working production cycle: light-heartedness, carefreeness, light-mindedness, high spirits, vivacity, liveliness, conviviality, cheerfulness, cheeriness, humour, gaiety, fun, jocularity, hilarity, frivolity, frivolousness, amusement, mirth, laughter, merriment, glee, comedy, funniness, wit, wittiness, jollity, joviality, joking, drollery, good cheer, sportiveness, nonsense, irreverence, facetiousness, flippancy, blitheness, triviality, silliness, foolishness, childishness, giddiness, skittishness. ANTONYMS seriousness, gravity. 2 he was distressed by the levity of her nature: fickleness, inconstancy, instability, unsteadiness, variability, changeability, unreliability, undependability, inconsistency, flightiness. ANTONYMS constancy.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

levity

lev i ty /lévəti /名詞 複 -ties ｟かたく ｠U ふまじめさ ; 軽率さ ; C 軽はずみな行為 .