Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being frivolous or trifling; want of importance.
- noun Synonyms See
frivolity .
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- noun uncountable The quality of being
frivolous ;frivolity - noun countable The result of being
frivolous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible
Etymologies
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Examples
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His chimeric fancy carries him here into a kind of frivolousness, as if he felt almost too safe with his public, and were himself not quite serious, or dealing fairly with it; and in a writer such as Browne levity must of necessity be a little ponderous.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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(“Attempting to highlight the ‘frivolousness’ nature of our femininity, or portraying trans women as having derogatory feminine-associated character traits such as being weak, confused, passive, or mousy”).
Kim Petras 2009
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Her glances will tire out the other women, she will see in them, like in a mirror, her own indecency, her very frivolousness will turn her away from any unhealthy competition with men.
Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy 2009
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The freeform page layouts found in shojo might have added an element of frivolousness to this quiet and personal story.
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Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Iowans are a practical people and maybe invented ones; his lack of frivolousness and petty knife-grinding will be with them on caucus day.
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Ridiculing the frivolousness of the press amused him almost as much as the behavior itself frustrated him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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