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frivolity

/fɹɪˈvɒlɪti/US/fɹɪˈvɑlɪti/

frivolity noun: frivolous act.

Noun

frivolity (countable and uncountable, plural frivolities)

  1. frivolous act
  2. state of being frivolous
    • The sight of their own blood in the white snow may even have been what provided the jolt to transform them from playful children recklessly delighting in the surprise of an unseasonable snowfall into a whooping army of mutineers urged on by a tiny cadre of seditious underclassmen to turn their...2008, Philip Roth, Indignation
    • “Look at this festive assembly. All of us, gathered here together, chuckling at jokes and silliness.” [laughter] “And jackanapery.” [rim shots] “I guess there's only one thing left to say. What is this shit?” [rim shot] [laughter] “[laughs] Very good.” “You call yourselves vampires? Bah. This...2023 August 24, Sarah Naftalis & Lauren Wells, “The Roast” (8:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 8, spoken by Baron Afanas (Doug Jones)

frivolity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

frivolity in Tamil

சிறுமைத்தனம்

frivolity in Urdu

الم غلم, بےہودگی, لغویت, مزاح

frivolity in Malayalam

levity, light-heartedness, joking
നിസ്സാരത്വം, നിസ്സാരത, കിഞ്ചനത്വം, ലഘുത്വം, ലാഘവം, ലഘിമ

frivolity in Arabic

state of being frivolous
خِفَّة ḵiffa, رُعُونَة ruʕūna, طَيْش ṭayš

Synonyms of frivolity

Forms of frivolity

pluralfrivolities

Origin of frivolity

Borrowed from French frivolité.

Questions about frivolity

What does frivolity mean?
Frivolity means frivolous act.
What is frivolity in Tamil?
Frivolity in Tamil is சிறுமைத்தனம். See Frivolity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is frivolity?
Frivolity is a noun.
How do you pronounce frivolity?
Frivolity is pronounced /fɹɪˈvɒlɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of frivolity?
The plural of frivolity is frivolities.

Words near frivolity in the dictionary

  1. frivolism
  2. frivolisms
  3. frivolist
  4. frivolists
  5. frivolities
  6. frivolity
  7. frivolize
  8. frivolized
  9. frivolizes
  10. frivolizing
  11. frivolled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frivolity (page history and authors); frivolity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frivolity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frivolity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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