levity

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noun

Plural noun:

levities

1.
(uncountable, usually)A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
An attempt to inject a little levity into the proceedings.
2.
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)A lack of steadiness.
3.
(uncountable, usually)The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
4.
(countable, usually)A lighthearted or frivolous act.

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levitous

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Coined in 1564, from la levitās, from levis (lightness (in weight)). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.