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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRIVOL'ITY, n. [See Frivolousness.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible [syn: frivolity, frivolousness] [ant: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity]
2: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity]
3: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1764 1. the quality or state of being frivolous 2. a frivolous act or thing

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frivolity Fri*vol"i*ty, n.; pl. Frivolities. [Cg. F. frivolit['e]. See Frivolous.] The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frivolities) If you refer to an activity as a frivolity, you think that it is amusing and rather silly, rather than serious and sensible. There is a serious message at the core of all this frivolity... He was one of my most able pupils, but far too easily distracted by frivolities. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Levity, puerility, trifling, triviality, frivolousness, folly, fribbling, frippery, flummery.

Moby Thesaurus

amusement, asininity, battiness, big deal, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, dallying, desipience, eccentricity, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, flightiness, flimsiness, flippancy, flirting, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolousness, fun, futility, game, giddiness, glee, gleefulness, goofiness, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, idiocy, idleness, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, jest, jocularity, jocundity, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, laughter, levity, lightness, lunacy, madness, merriment, merriness, mindlessness, mirth, mirthfulness, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, play, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, queerness, roguishness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, shallowness, silliness, slenderness, slightness, sport, sportiveness, stupidity, superficiality, thoughtlessness, toying, trickery, trickiness, trifling, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, vacuity, vanity, vapidity, volatility, wackiness, waggery, waggishness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism