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Levity vs Triviality - What's the difference?

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Levity is a related term of triviality.


As nouns the difference between levity and triviality

is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while triviality is the quality of being trivial or unimportant.

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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    triviality

    English

    Noun

    (trivialities)
  • The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
  • Something which is trivial or unimportant.
  • * 1908:
    • I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities .