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Frivolousness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being frivolous; frivolity

n. The result of being frivolous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being frivolous or trifling; want of importance.

n. Synonyms See frivolity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible

Word Usage

"His chimeric fancy carries him here into a kind of frivolousness, as if he felt almost too safe with his public, and were himself not quite serious, or dealing fairly with it; and in a writer such as Browne levity must of necessity be a little ponderous."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

trait

Hyponym

silliness playfulness giddiness levity fun

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

oddness whimsicality synchronism hallooing idiosyncracy