Meaning of FRIVOLITY
| Pronunciation: | | fri'vâlitee
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- [n] acting like a clown or buffoon
- [n] something of little value or significance
- [n] the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible
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| | Synonyms: | | bagatelle, buffoonery, clowning, fluff, frippery, frivolousness, harlequinade, prank |
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| | Antonyms: | | earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity | | |
| | See Also: | | folly, foolery, fun, giddiness, indulgence, levity, playfulness, silliness, stuff, sundries, sundry, tomfoolery, trait, whatchamacallit, whatsis | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fri*vol"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Frivolities}. [Cg. F.
frivolit['e]. See {Frivolous}.]
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or
habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
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| | Related Terms: | | amusement, asininity, battiness, big deal, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dallying, desipience, eccentricity, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, flirting, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolousness, fun, futility, game, giddiness, glee, gleefulness, goofiness, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, idiocy, idleness, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jest, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laughter, levity, lightness, lunacy, madness, merriment, merriness, mindlessness, mirth, mirthfulness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, play, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, queerness, roguishness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, sport, sportiveness, stupidity, superficiality, thoughtlessness, toying, trickery, trickiness, trifling, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, volatility, wackiness, waggery, waggishness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism |
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