frivolity
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6.7
- noun
- /frɪˈvɑːləti/
:
frivolidad
- If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem.
- frivolity of the Rococo
So I ring him and after the bit of frivolity he says have you got it?
- So I ring him and after the bit of frivolity he says have you got it?
- So youth is LED astray by the this and through their their pleasure and frivolity.
Examples
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In my family, no one had completed high school, and books were considered an expensive frivolity.
Fiction book (1999) -
This is no time for frivolities.
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So I ring him and after the bit of frivolity he says have you got it?
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I do not hold your frivolity against you.
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You have to allow me a little frivolity.
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I've always told you it's more than just frivolity.
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On Christmas Eve night, we and our guests gather in the Great Hall for a night of well-mannered frivolity.
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Despite her faults, her vanity, her frivolity, I loved her.
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Enough frivolity.
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An evening of games and frivolity will do us all a world of good.
Synonyms
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4.1
Something people treat as not serious or important
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2.6
Playful or foolish behavior that is not serious and often funny
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7.4
Light, joking talk or behavior when people expect seriousness
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3.2
Acting in a silly way to make people laugh
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7.9
Clown-like, silly actions meant to make people laugh
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3.2
A way of acting that is silly, playful, and often makes people laugh
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9.9
Small decorative things that are fancy and not useful
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8.0
A playful, joking way of behaving that makes people laugh
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9.9
Playful, foolish behavior that tries to make people laugh
A habit of treating important things as unimportant
Playful, lively behaviour that shows happy energy
Funny or silly actions that try to make people laugh
Silly, wild actions people do to get attention
Antonyms
How Frivolous
Surface Forms
Morphology
frivolity = frivolous (transparent) = frivol + ity
Standard noun formation from the adjective 'frivolous' using -ity to denote the state or quality of being frivolous.
Etymology
Frivolity comes from an old Latin word frivolus and the Old French frivole, which meant 'worthless' or 'not important'. So, frivolity is about light, silly behaviour or things that are not serious.