Levity vs Facility - What's the difference?
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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:
(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
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Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
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Levity is a related term of facility.
As nouns the difference between levity and facility
is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.levity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .
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facility
English
Noun
(facilities)- Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
- The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
Internal Combustion, passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}