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Levity vs Swiftness - What's the difference?

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Levity is a related term of swiftness.


As nouns the difference between levity and swiftness

is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while swiftness is the state of being swift.

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

    * (l)

    References

    swiftness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state of being swift

    • Synonyms

    * celerity * haste * rapidity