Levity

Noun

 * 1) lightness of manner or speech, frivolity
 * 2)  lack of steadiness
 * 3) The state or quality of being light, buoyancy
 * 4) *Robert Montgomery Bird:
 * it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness
 * 1) *1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
 * Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity.
 * 1) A lighthearted or frivolous  act

Antonyms

 * gravity

Adjectives for Levity
incorrigible; enervate; uncanonical;  responsive; unpardonable; superficial; dreadful; careless; shameful; bitter; exquisite; undesirable; foolish; unnecessary; unbecoming; surface.

Thesaurus
absentmindedness, absurdity, airiness, amusement, ascent, banter, big deal, booing, bounce, breeziness, bubbliness, buoyancy, carefreeness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing, changeableness, chirpiness, coquettishness, daintiness, debonairness, delicacy, derision, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, downiness, emptiness, ethereality, facetiousness, faddishness, faddism, fickleness, fleering, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, folly, fooling, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, fun, futility, gentleness, giddiness, glee, gleefulness, gossameriness, grinning, heedlessness, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, hissing, hooting, idleness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inanity, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, inconstancy, incuriosity, indifference, inobservance, jauntiness, jeering, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joshing, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, lack of weight, laughter, leering, levitation, light heart, lightheartedness, lightmindedness, lightness, lightsomeness, mercuriality, mercurialness, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, mockery, negligence, nonobservance, nugacity, obliviousness, panning, perkiness, pertness, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, ragging, raillery, rallying, razzing, regardlessness, resilience, ridicule, roasting, roguishness, scoffing, shallowness, silliness, skittishness, slenderness, slightness, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, softness, sportiveness, superficiality, taunting, tenderness, thoughtlessness, trickery, trickiness, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialization, trivialness, twitting, unalertness, unawareness, unconsciousness, undependability, unheaviness, unheedfulness, unintentiveness, unmindfulness, unobservance, unpredictability, unreliability, unwariness, unwatchfulness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, volatility, waggery, waggishness, weightlessness, yeastiness

Etymology
Coined in 1564, from levitas:, from levis:.

Cognate to lever:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Estonian: kerglus


 * Irish: éadroime
 * Portuguese: leveza