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Definition

lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

In Shakespeare's time, levity could refer to immorality.

Despite the tension, she managed to inject a bit of levity into the news conference.

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

There was no levity in his voice when he answered:
Twain, Mark -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
Frowns at this levity.
Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra
Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of good-natured, sincere, and animated levity.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
But when I start to help him to the stream, all the levity disappears.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

levity = feelings of fun or amusement

The second of levity passed, and everyone was still.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

There was no levity in his voice when he answered: "Yes, Mother, I know, now, that I am reformed—and permanently."
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

our graver business Frowns at this levity.
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

levity = amusement or a lack of seriousness

BRADY: (Piously) I object to the note of levity which the counsel for the defense is introducing into these proceedings.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

It was a dreadfully austere inquiry, but levity was not our note, and, at any rate, before the gray dawn admonished us to separate I had got my answer.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw

levity = lightheartedness

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

There was a great crowd outside and while this was going on inside with the priest, there was some levity outside and shouting of obscenities, but most of the people were very serious and respectful.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

levity = lightheartedness (feeling amusement or a lack of seriousness)

de Bellegarde, in punishment for his levity, received a stern poke in the back from a pointed instrument.
James, Henry -- The American
Levity, or deep-seated weakness?
Conrad, Joseph -- Under Western Eyes
There was no levity in it.
London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
I will not suffer this tone of levity.
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
no levity, and a prayer and a sermon withal.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
Ere they can hide their levity in honour.
Shakespeare, William -- All's Well that End's Well
They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory, are ever envious.
Bacon, Sir Francis -- The Essays

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