Usually means: Lightheartedness, lack of serious concern.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. frivolity: Merriam-Webster
  2. frivolity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frivolity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frivolity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frivolity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frivolity, frivolity: Wordnik
  7. frivolity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frivolity: Wiktionary
  9. frivolity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frivolity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frivolity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Frivolity, frivolity: Dictionary.com
  13. frivolity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Frivolity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Frivolity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. frivolity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. frivolity: Rhymezone
  18. frivolity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. frivolity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. frivolity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. frivolity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. frivolity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. frivolity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frivolity: Legal dictionary

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  1. Frivolity: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  frivolous act
▸ noun:  state of being frivolous

Similar:
frivolousness, bagatelle, frippery, clowning, buffoonery, prank, harlequinade, fluff, trifling, profligacy, more...

Opposite:
sobriety, seriousness, earnestness, gravity, importance

Types:
frivolousness, frivolous, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, apparent, much, french, little, certain, feminine, youthful, utter, sheer

Colors:
    pink,     lavender,     turquoise,     lime green,     coral, more...

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Similar:
frivolousness, bagatelle, frippery, clowning, buffoonery, prank, harlequinade, fluff, trifling, profligacy, more...

Opposite:
sobriety, seriousness, earnestness, gravity, importance

Types:
frivolousness, frivolous, more...

Adjectives:
such, mere, apparent, much, french, little, certain, feminine, youthful, utter, sheer

Colors:
    pink,     lavender,     turquoise,     lime green,     coral, more...



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