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==Origin==
Old French levité = Italian levità, < [[Latin]] levitātem, levitās, < levis [[light]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1564]
==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.
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
==Antonym==
*'''''[[Gravity]]'''''
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
Old French levité = Italian levità, < [[Latin]] levitātem, levitās, < levis [[light]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1564]
==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.
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
==Antonym==
*'''''[[Gravity]]'''''
[[Category: General Reference]]
