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Detractor vs Levity - What's the difference?

detractor | levity |

As nouns the difference between detractor and levity

is that detractor is a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause while levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

detractor

English

Alternative forms

* detractour (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
  • * 2012 , Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 15 November 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-world]
    • Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

    Synonyms

    * slanderer * libeler * cynic * mudslinger * defamer

    Antonyms

    * proponent * supporter

    levity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
  • (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
  • The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
  • * F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • * Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird:
  • * 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.
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    • Antonyms

    * (l)

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