mindmap root((轻浮)) lightness implies a lack of weight and seriousness and sometimes an instability or careless heedlessness: the only bit of ~ in a dreary, ponderous drama. levity suggests trifling or unseasonable gaiety: injected a moment of ~ in the solemn proceedings. frivolity suggests irresponsible indulgence in gaieties or in idle speech or conduct: a playgirl living a life of uninterrupted ~. flippancy implies an unbecoming levity especially in speaking of grave or sacred matters: spoke of the bombing with annoying ~. volatility implies such lightness or fickleness of disposition as prevents long attention to any one thing: the ~ of the public interest in foreign aid. flightiness implies extreme volatility that may approach loss of mental balance: the ~ of my grandmother in her old age.