levity

Main Entry:
levity [lev-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: funniness, silliness
Synonyms: absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit
Antonyms: gravity, seriousness
Main Entry: buoyancy/buoyance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lightness in weight
Synonyms: airiness, ethereality, floatability, levity, weightlessness
Antonyms: heaviness
Main Entry: diversion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: entertainment, recreation
Synonyms: amusement, ball, beguilement, delectation, delight, disport, dissipation, distraction, divertissement, enjoyment, field day, frivolity, fun, fun and games, game, gratification, grins, high time, hoopla*, laughs, levity, merry-go-round, pastime, picnic, play, pleasure, relaxation, relish, sport, whoopee
Antonyms: chore, task, vocation, work
Main Entry: festivity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: celebration, revelry
Synonyms: amusement, bash*, blowout, carousal*, clambake, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, fun and games, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, reveling, revelment, shindig*, sport, whoopee, wingding
Notes: a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion
Main Entry: flightiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irresponsibility
Synonyms: airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability, dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness, inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness, mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality, whimsicalness
Antonyms: responsibility
Main Entry: flippancy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irreverence
Synonyms: archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, disrespectfulness, flightiness, freshness, frivolity, impertinence, impishness, impudence, levity, lightness, mischievousness, pertness, playfulness, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness, volatility, waggishness
Antonyms: courtesy, respect, reverence, seriousness
Main Entry: frivolity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: silliness, childishness
Synonyms: coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy
Antonyms: sensibility, seriousness, wiseness
Main Entry: humor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: comedy, funniness
Synonyms: amusement, badinage, banter, buffoonery, clowning, comicality, comicalness, drollery, facetiousness, farce, flippancy, fun, gag, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joke, joking, joyfulness, kidding, levity, lightness, playfulness, pleasantry, raillery, tomfoolery, whimsy, wisecrack, wit, witticism, wittiness
Antonyms: depression, drama, sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness
Main Entry: merriment/merrymaking
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enjoyment, amusement
Synonyms: brawl, buffoonery, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, laughs, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, whoopee, wingding
Antonyms: sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
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