Levity vs Frippery - 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...
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* 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Useless things; trifles.
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(obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
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(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
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Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Levity is a related term of frippery.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between levity and frippery
is that levity is (obsolete) lack of steadiness while frippery is (obsolete) the place where old clothes are sold.As nouns the difference between levity and frippery
is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while frippery is ostentation, as in fancy clothing.levity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .
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frippery
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Noun
- [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
- O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery .
- Fond of gauze and French frippery . — .
- The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — .