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

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frivolities

Coppola filled the film tip-to-couture-heeled-toe with songs from ’80s punk and new wave groups, creating a throughline between her own teenage preoccupations and the adolescent Queen of France’s frivolities.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Nevers proposes a toast to "our sweethearts," and gaily adds that he must soon forego such frivolities as he is to be married.

From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls

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