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levity

C1 noun

levity /ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti/ nghĩa là sự thiếu nghiêm túc, thái độ bông đùa

Các nghĩa

  1. sự thiếu nghiêm túc, thái độ bông đùa

    A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

    uncountable · usually

    An attempt to inject a little levity into the proceedings.

  2. sự nhẹ nhõm, tính nhẹ

    The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

    uncountable · usually

    Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity […]

    […]it would really seem as if there was something nomadic in our natures, a principle of levity and restlessness […]

    Hydrogen […] rises in the air on account of its levity.

  3. hành động bông đùa, cử chỉ khinh suất

    A lighthearted or frivolous act.

    countable · usually

    […] or do the people joy less than common in their levities?"

    His incorrigible levities had probably lost him the countenance of most of his more serious acquaintances[…

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