Showing results for frivolities. Search instead for fidelities.

frivolities

NOUN

silliness, childishness

Synonyms

STRONGEST

levity

STRONG

flightiness flippancy flirting flummery folly frippery frivolousness fun gaiety game giddiness jest lightheartedness lightness nonsense play puerility shallowness sport superficiality toying trifling triviality volatility whimsicality whimsy

WEAK

coquetting dallying fribble

Antonyms

STRONG

sadness seriousness understanding work

WEAK

sensibility wiseness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Every moment he spends on such frivolities is a missed opportunity to advance his cause.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The navy did not want its midshipmen wasting their time on such frivolities.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Yet it’s often the case — now as then — that expressions of personal style among serious people are deemed frivolities.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

His high school friends nicknamed him “Simple” because he refused most frivolities and felt most comfortable mingling with the country’s lower classes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2016

If you ask me honestly if I like being ‘vain,’ I mean, taking part in social frivolities, I shouldn’t know what to answer.

From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis