levity

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My first thought wasn't, "wow, that's a novel way to bring levity into the daily chore drudge.

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feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

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noun

feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

noun

a manner lacking seriousness

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for levity.

noun

feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

noun

a manner lacking seriousness

Example sentences

My first thought wasn't, "wow, that's a novel way to bring levity into the daily chore drudge.

He shows levity, humor, and makes sure to keep his eye on the ball - systemic racism.

So writing the main theme to have a French feel but with the right amount of levity took a lot of iteration.

Absolute rules for all circumstances are far more of a cancer than a little levity.

I enjoy the levity of this thread; HN sometimes takes itself too seriously!

" suggests something different, more about the levity of the team.

Not sure that brand of levity would be appreciated by MS sufferers and supporters.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Sometimes when I feel blue about HN and what it has become, I refer to Dabblers and Blowhards for a little bit of levity.

Personally, it's refreshing to see someone bring some levity to all the seriousness.

Your username combined with your claimed former work experience is utterly hilarious--thank you for the levity in this dark time.

If you spend half your day reading papers on fully homomorphic encryption, I think we can forgive a little levity to compensate.

Personally, I see this as an attempt to add humor and levity to a repeated and horrible violation of our rights and person.

4chan may be trolling, but the levity about north korea and their slave labor camps isn't funny because it is a real tragedy that noone can do anything about it.

"the levity about north korea and their slave labor camps isn't funny"Gallows humor is generally about the horror of the situation, not at the expense of the victims.

[edit: I do get that they became 'friends', which gives some levity to these descriptions, but it still strikes me as casting aspersions not just on the individual but more generally on the way he and others like choose to work]

I'll take a page from the book of the guys you're defending and make a pithy comment to add some "levity" to the situation, as you called it."At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.