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Old French levité = Italian levità, < [[Latin]] levitātem, levitās, < levis [[light]] | Old French levité = Italian levità, < [[Latin]] levitātem, levitās, < levis [[light]] | ||
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==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
*1: a. As a [[physical]] quality: The [[quality]] or [[fact]] of having comparatively little [[weight]]; lightness. | *1: a. As a [[physical]] quality: The [[quality]] or [[fact]] of having comparatively little [[weight]]; lightness. | ||
Latest revision as of 01:21, 13 December 2020
Origin
Old French levité = Italian levità, < Latin levitātem, levitās, < levis light
Definitions
- 1: a. As a physical quality: The quality or fact of having comparatively little weight; lightness.
- 2: b. In pre-scientific physics, regarded as a positive property inherent in bodies in different degrees, or varying proportions, in virtue of which they tend to rise, as bodies possessing gravity tend to sink.
- 3: Lightness in movement; agility.
- 4: As a moral or mental quality, in various senses.
- a. Want of serious thought or reflexion; frivolity.
- b. Incapacity for lasting affection, resolution, or conviction; heedlessness in making and breaking promises; instability, fickleness, inconstancy.
- c.‘Light’ or undignified behavior; unbecoming freedom of conduct (said esp. of women); an instance of this.
- d. Lightness (of spirit), freedom from care. Obs.
1631 John Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 83 To what a blessed levity, (if without levity we may so speake) to what a cheerefull lightnesse of spirit is he come, that comes newly from Confession.
