frivolousness
91frivolity — noun everyone needs a little frivolity now and again Syn: lightheartedness, levity, joking, jocularity, gaiety, fun, frivolousness, silliness, foolishness, flightiness, skittishness; superficiality, shallowness, flippancy, vacuity, empty… …
92careless — adj Careless, heedless, thoughtless, inadvertent mean showing lack of concern or attention. Careless often implies the absence of such cares as responsibilities or worries; it then usually connotes casualness, spontaneity, and lightheartedness… …
93stabilize — stabilize, steady, poise, balance, ballast, trim are comparable when they mean to maintain or cause to maintain position or equilibrium. Despite their agreement in basic meaning they vary widely in their implications and in their range of… …
94chaff — I n 1. husks, shucks, hulls, glumes, pods, shells; cases, casings, outer coverings; peels, skins, rinds. 2. refuse. Dial. culch, rubbish, garbage, waste, Brit. wastrel, discarded matter; offal, carrion, rot, spoil; offscourings, dregs, draff,… …
95folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
96fribble — v 1. trifle, toy, play, fool, Sl. monkey around; dabble, putter, potter, piddle. 2. waste away, fritter away, fool away, trifle away, dribble away, Inf. diddle away. n 3. trifler, dallier, dabbler, potterer, putterer, piddler. 4. trifle,… …
97inanity — n 1. silliness, absurdity, absurdness, pointlessness, fatuousness, foolishness, Archaic. insip ience, folly; tomfoolery, foolery, fooling, clownery; senselessness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness; poppycock, amphigory,… …
98insouciance — n carefreeness, nonchalance, indifference, unconcern; heedlessness, laxity, laxness, pococu rantism, lackadaisicalness, casualness; happy go luckiness, easiness, easygoingness; light mindedness, flightiness, airiness, volatility; frivolousness,… …
99levity — n 1. lightness, light heartedness, airiness; frivolity, frivolousness, flippancy, giddiness, trifling, triviality; folly, foolishness, silliness, fatuity, foolery; tomfoolery, asininity, ridiculousness, waggery; jollity, jocularity, jocundity,… …
100stupidity — n 1. dull wittedness, Inf. dumbness, unintelligence, fatuity, insensateness, betise; imbecility, Inf. moronism, Inf. moronity, retardation, subnor mality; empty headedness, brainlessness, mindlessness; dullness, Inf. dopiness, witlessness,… …
