different between wildness vs levity
wildness
English
Etymology
From Middle English wildenes, wildenesse, equivalent to wild +? -ness.
Noun
wildness (countable and uncountable, plural wildnesses)
- the quality of being wild or untamed
Translations
Anagrams
- Swindles, swindles, windless
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levity
English
Etymology
Coined in 1564, from Latin levit?s (“lightness, frivolity”), from levis (“lightness (in weight)”). Cognate to lever, and more distantly, light.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?l?.v?.ti/
Noun
levity (usually uncountable, plural levities)
- Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
- (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
- The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
- Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]
- 1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, Peter Pilgrim
- […] it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness […]
- 1869, Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
- Hydrogen […] rises in the air on account of its levity.
- (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
Antonyms
- gravity
Derived terms
- levitous
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