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  • 91frivolity — levity, flippancy, light mindedness, volatility, flightiness, tightness Analogous words: trifling, flirting, dallying, coquetting, toying (see TRIFLE vb): play, sport, *fun, jest, game: gaiety, liveliness, vivaciousness, sprightliness (see… …

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  • 92insanity — insanity, lunacy, psychosis, mania, dementia are the leading general terms denoting serious mental disorder. Insanity as a technical term belongs to law rather than to medicine. It is used to cover a wide variety of mental disorders, all of which …

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  • 93levity — tightness, light mindedness, frivolity, flippancy, volatility, flightiness Analogous words: foolishness or folly, silliness, absurdity (see corresponding adjectives at FOOLISH): gaiety, liveliness, spright liness, vivaciousness or vivacity (see… …

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  • 94light-mindedness — *lightness, levity, frivolity, flippancy, volatility, flightiness …

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  • 95skip — vb Skip, bound, hop, curvet, lope, lollop, ricochet can all mean to move or advance with successive springs or leaps .The first three words are commonly referable to persons or animals but they may be used in reference to inanimate things. Skip… …

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  • 96volatility — *lightness, light mindedness, levity, frivolity, flippancy, flightiness Analogous words: vivaciousness or vivacity, gaiety, liveliness, animation, sprightliness (see corresponding adjectives at LIVELY): unstableness or instability, mercurialness …

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  • 97extravagance — n 1. prodigality, lavishness, profligacy, wastefulness, recklessness, spendthrift ways, folly, excess, exorbitance. 2. excessiveness, immoderateness, unreasonableness, undueness, inordinateness; outrageousness, preposter ousness, monstrousness;… …

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  • 98fluidity — n 1. liquidity, liquidness, liquefaction, fluxility, fluxion, gaseousness, volatility. 2. flow, fluency, smoothness, evenness; facility, ease. 3. adaptability, flexibility, pliancy; versatility. 4. instability, unstableness, fickleness,… …

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  • 99imbecility — n 1. feeble mindedness, mental defectiveness, mental retardation, incompetency, dullness, Psychiatry. amentia; feebleness, weakness, incapability, unfitness, ineptitude, disability. 2. silliness, absurdity, fatuity, foolishness, asininity,… …

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  • 100inconsistency — n 1. inharmoniousness, inconso nance, dissonance, discordancy, absonance; incompatibility, inconformability, incongruity; discrepancy, divergence, disagreement, difference, dissimilarity, dissimilitude. 2. inconsequence, incoherence,… …

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