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  • 111flippancy — [n] irreverence archness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, disrespectfulness, flightiness, freshness, frivolity, impertinence, impishness, impudence, levity, lightness, mischievousness, pertness, playfulness, roguishness, rudeness, sauciness,… …

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  • 112frivolity — [n] silliness, childishness coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness …

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  • 113instability — [n] imbalance, inconstancy alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency,… …

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  • 114levity — [n] funniness, silliness absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth,… …

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  • 115nonsense — [n] craziness, ridiculousness absurdity, babble, balderdash*, baloney*, bananas*, bombast, bull*, bunk*, claptrap*, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash*, hooey*, hot air*, imprudence, inanity,… …

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  • 116flighty — ► ADJECTIVE (flightier, flightiest) ▪ frivolous and fickle. DERIVATIVES flightiness noun …

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  • 117flighty — [flīt′ē] adj. flightier, flightiest [ FLIGHT1 + Y2] 1. given to sudden whims; not taking things seriously; frivolous or irresponsible 2. easily excited, upset, etc. flightily adv. flightiness n …

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  • 118flighty — adj. (flightier, flightiest) 1 (usu. of a girl) frivolous, fickle, changeable. 2 crazy. Derivatives: flightily adv. flightiness n. Etymology: FLIGHT(1) + Y(1) …

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  • 119flyaway — adjective 1. guided by whim and fancy flighty young girls • Syn: ↑flighty, ↑head in the clouds, ↑scatterbrained • Similar to: ↑frivolous • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 120head-in-the-clouds — adjective guided by whim and fancy flighty young girls • Syn: ↑flighty, ↑flyaway, ↑scatterbrained • Similar to: ↑frivolous • Derivationally related forms: ↑fli …

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