Levity vs Whimsy - What's the difference?

Levity is a related term of whimsy.

As nouns the difference between levity and whimsy

is that levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity while whimsy is a quaint and fanciful idea a whim playfully odd behaviour.

As a verb whimsy is

to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

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

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whimsy

English

Alternative forms

* whimsey

Noun

(en-noun)

A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.

The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.

Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.

Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.

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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.

(mining) A whim.

Verb

To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

* J. Fletcher

To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.