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What does levity mean?

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Noun
  1. Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
  2. (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
  3. The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
  4. (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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As bad and as damaging as this in-house report is, we are told that it was all a matter of levity and humour.
Occasional moments of levity can go a long way in a motion picture like this.
That said, it was well researched and balanced with just enough savage irony to break the gravity with levity.
There was levity, including lots of cheers and high spirits, a conga line and even three cheers for the Queen's 50th jubilee.
One difference, however, is the note of realism and levity that tempers every show.
The graceful levity of the nation could not easily err in this direction, nor tolerate such deliration in the greatest of men.

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