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Flippancy vs Wantonness - What's the difference?

flippancy | wantonness | Related terms |

Flippancy is a related term of wantonness.


As nouns the difference between flippancy and wantonness

is that flippancy is a disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters while wantonness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.

flippancy

English

Noun

(flippancies)
  • A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.

    • Related terms

    * flippant

    wantonness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
  • *1897 , , Dracula , ch. 16,
  • *:The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness .
  • (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
  • *1882 , , History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty , Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366,
  • *:These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.