Levity vs Humor - What's the difference?
levity | humor |
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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* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40
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As nouns the difference between levity and humor
is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while humor is an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en.As a verb humor is
an alternative spelling of from=US|lang=en.levity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .
Antonyms
* (l)References
humor
English
Noun
(en noun)- For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.
Verb
(en verb)- I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.