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Imprudence vs Levity - What's the difference?

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Imprudence is a related term of levity.


In countable|lang=en terms the difference between imprudence and levity

is that imprudence is (countable) an imprudent act while levity is (countable) a lighthearted or frivolous act.

As nouns the difference between imprudence and levity

is that imprudence is (uncountable) the quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness while levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

imprudence

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.
  • (countable) An imprudent act.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1906 – 1921 , author= , title= , volume=1 , chapter=Encounter , passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}

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    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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