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Levity vs Dallying - What's the difference?

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Levity is a related term of dallying.


As nouns the difference between levity and dallying

is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while dallying is dalliance.

As a verb dallying is

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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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    • Antonyms

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    dallying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • dalliance
  • *
    • Nevertheless, you must know (if I am to speak honestly to you) that I do not repent me those dallyings in enchanted fields.