Levity vs Witty - What's the difference?
levity | witty |
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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(label) Wise, having good judgement.
*, Bk.VIII, Ch.viij:
*:Then cam there a lady that was a wytty lady, and she seyde playnly unto the Kyngthat he sholde never be hole but yf that Sir Trystrames wente into the same contrey than the venym came fro, and in that contrey sholde he be holpyn, other ellys never.
(label) Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
*, II.7:
*:It hath beene a witty invention.
Clever; amusingly ingenious.
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Full of wit.
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Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
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As a noun levity
is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.As an adjective witty is
(label) wise, having good judgement.levity
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .