levity

1. 1.

   feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

   Antonymsgravity

   Broaderfeeling

   Narrowergaiety
2. 2.

   a manner lacking seriousness

   Broaderfrivolity

   Narrowerflippancyjocoseness

Other forms of levity

plural

levities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about levity

What does levity mean?

levity means "feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in levity?

levity has 3 syllables: lev-i-ty. The stress falls on "lev". In IPA it is /ˈlɛvɪti/.

What is the opposite of levity?

The recorded antonyms are gravity.

Is levity a common word?

levity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.