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frivolosity

noun

Etymology

From frivol(ous) + -osity.

  1. borrowed from frīvolus
  2. suffixed as frivolosity — “frivolous + osity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being frivolous.

    • Let us hope, that no frivoloſity of manners, no pride of wealth, of anceſtry and arms, or difference of opinion, will hereafter leſſen thoſe reaſonable enjoyments.
    • Hence that frivolosity of conduct, which pervades all ranks of men, even where the intereſts of eternity are concerned.
    • Attention to vain and frivolous objects, produces a vanity and frivolosity of taſte and diſpoſition, &c.

  2. Something frivolous.

    • […]whoſe wisdom lies more (if not in forgetting) yet at leaſt in forgoing frivoloſities, that are ſo Remote to the Souls Redemption, then to fight ſo fiercely and fooliſhly for them[…]
    • Our good neighbor of the Advertiser gets such a castigation in the last number for a recent freak of alliterate verbosity, that The Friend must be on guard against any similar indecorous saltations or journalistic frivolosities.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA