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frivolity
noun
1 frivolity
The trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible.
synonym: frivolousness.
Roget 499:
want of intelligence
etc.
498,
want of intellect
etc.
450;
shadowness†,
silliness,
foolishness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility,
incapacity,
vacancy of mind,
poverty of intellect,
weakness of intellect,
clouded perception,
poor head,
apartments to let;
stupidity,
stolidity;
hebetude†,
dull understanding,
meanest capacity,
shortsightedness;
incompetence
etc.
(unskillfulness)
699.
one's weak side,
not one's strong point;
bias
etc.
481;
infatuation
etc.
(insanity)
503.
simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood;
dotage,
anility†,
second childishness,
fatuity;
idiocy,
idiotism†;
driveling.
folly,
frivolity,
irrationality,
trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity†,
inconsistency,
lip wisdom,
conceit;
sophistry
etc.
477;
giddiness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
eccentricity
etc.
503;
extravagance
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
rashness
etc.
863.
act of folly
etc.
699.
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Dutch: frivoliteit
Polish: pustota
2 frivolity
Something of little value or significance.
synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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3 frivolity
Moby thesaurus: amusement, asininity, battiness, big deal, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dallying, desipience, eccentricity, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, flirting, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolousness, fun, futility, game, giddiness, glee, gleefulness, goofiness, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, idiocy, idleness, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jest, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laughter, levity, lightness, lunacy, madness, merriment, merriness, mindlessness, mirth, mirthfulness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, play, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, queerness, roguishness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, sport, sportiveness, stupidity, superficiality, thoughtlessness, toying, trickery, trickiness, trifling, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, volatility, wackiness, waggery, waggishness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism ... show more.
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