Levity vs Instability - 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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(uncountable) The quality of being unstable.
(physics, countable) A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
Levity is a related term of instability.
As nouns the difference between levity and instability
is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while instability is (uncountable) the quality of being unstable.levity
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Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .