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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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Despite the undercurrent of levity, the activists were quite serious in their intent.
That said, it was well researched and balanced with just enough savage irony to break the gravity with levity.
By resisting the temptation to be weightily profound, the story succeeds in telling useful truths with a touch of levity.
Occasional moments of levity can go a long way in a motion picture like this.
Each of those movies was scary, but with the right note of levity to keep them out of straight horror territory.
Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.

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