levity

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.

   An attempt to inject a little levity into the proceedings.

2. noun A lack of steadiness.
3. noun The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
4. noun A lighthearted or frivolous act.

Similar words

joking joke kidding superficiality lightness thoughtlessness lightheartedness lightliness frivolism frivol

Often followed by

of and in or with which to is that

Word family

levities