Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
inappropriate levity;
- Example: "her mood changed and she was all lightness and joy"[syn: flippancy, light-mindedness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flippancy \Flip"pan*cy\, n.[See Flippant.]
The state or quality of being flippant.
[1913 Webster]
This flippancy of language. --Bp. Hurd.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flippancy
n 1: inappropriate levity; "her mood changed and she was all
lightness and joy" [syn: flippancy, light-mindedness]